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CVE-2017-8925

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-404

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Linux kernel: through 4.10.3

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
• 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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