Published: 12/05/2017 Updated: 03/10/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 188

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

The omninet_open function in drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel prior to 4.10.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (tty exhaustion) by leveraging reference count mishandling.

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks CVE-2017-7487 Li Qiang reported a reference counter leak in the ipxitf_ioctl function which may result into a use-after-free vulnerability, triggerable when a IPX interface is configured CVE ...

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...

The omninet_open function in drivers/usb/serial/omninetc in the Linux kernel before 4104 allows local users to cause a denial of service (tty exhaustion) by leveraging reference count mishandling ...

CWE-404 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98462 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3886 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3360-1/

CVE-2017-8925

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