CVE-2017-8925

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p36

Published

May 12, 2017 (May 12, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: linux debian
Products: linux kernel, debian linux
Weakness: CWE-404
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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