LIN6-12973 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2017-8925
Created: May 14, 2017
Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jun 7, 2018
Found In Version: 6.0.0.33
Fix Version: 6.0.0.37
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Kernel
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.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8925
