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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