Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting kernel-rt-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELRTDEVEL-1986206
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed6 Mar 2017

Introduced: 6 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-8925  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 kernel-rt-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-devel package and not the kernel-rt-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.