CVE-2017-8925

medium

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.

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2017-05-12

Updated: 2019-10-03

Type: CWE-404

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: LOW

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM