vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-8925

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 12, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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