Vulnerability CVE-2017-8925
Published: 2017-05-12

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.

Type:

CWE-404

 (Improper Resource Shutdown or Release)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98462
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8
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