CVE-2017-8925
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.9.16-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.9.16-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.9.16-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.9.16-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.9.16-1 |
| linux-kernel | affected | | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| debian | 9.0 | affected | |
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
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8925.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8925
CWEs
CWE-404
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.