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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98462 ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8 ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886 ↗