{"id":"CVE-2017-8925","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.","modified":"2026-03-15T22:16:48.845092Z","published":"2017-05-12T21:29:00.237Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2017:1853-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2342-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2525-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2908-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2920-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98462"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8925.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"4.10.3"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}