CVE-2017-8925

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    CVE-2017-8925

    Published: 12 May 2017Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The omninet_open function in drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (tty exhaustion) by leveraging reference count mishandling.

    References: http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98462, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8

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    Availability
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