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CVE-2017-8925
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-12T21:29:00.237 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:27:12.687

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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