CVE-2017-8925: Debian Linux

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

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

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.10.3

Published 2017-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.