LIN8-6672 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2017-8925
Created: May 14, 2017
Updated: Dec 9, 2020
Resolved Date: Jun 5, 2017
Found In Version: 8.0.0.17
Fix Version: 8.0.0.19
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
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
