Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's omninet_open Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's omninet_open Function

CVE-2017-8925 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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