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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-05-12T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:48:23.018Z

Reserved: 2017-05-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-8925

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-05-12T21:29:00.237

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-8925

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-03-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-8925 - Bugzilla