CVE-2018-6554
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 4, 2018
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 2, 2018
Description
Memory leak in the irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c and later in drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly binding an AF_IRDA socket.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Linux KernelLinux Kernel |
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References
- USN-3776-1vendor-advisory
- USN-3776-2vendor-advisory
- USN-3777-1vendor-advisory
- USN-3775-1vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181003 [SECURITY] [DLA 1531-1] linux-4.9 security updatemailing-list
- [stable] 20180904 [PATCH 1/2] irda: Fix memory leak caused by repeated binds of irda socketmailing-list
- DSA-4308vendor-advisory
- 105302vdb-entry
- USN-3775-2vendor-advisory
- USN-3777-2vendor-advisory
- USN-3777-3vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190315 [SECURITY] [DLA 1715-1] linux-4.9 security updatemailing-list
- [stable] 20180904 [PATCH 1/2] irda: Fix memory leak caused by repeated binds of irda socketmailing-list
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