LIN9-4191 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2017-8925
Created: May 14, 2017
Updated: May 29, 2018
Resolved Date: Aug 10, 2017
Found In Version: 9.0.0.6
Fix Version: 9.0.0.8
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
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
