UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8925

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8925

    Published: 12 May 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-8925
    Aliases:
    USN-3359-1
    USN-3360-1
    USN-3360-2

    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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8925, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3359-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3361-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3360-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3360-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8925

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-125.174

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High