CVE-2017-18360: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In change_port_settings in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.3, local users could cause a denial of service by division-by-zero in the serial device layer by trying to set very high baud rates.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only
  • Linux Linux Kernel: before 4.11.3 (fixed in 4.11.3)

Published 2019-01-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.