CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6554
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400, CWE-772
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 4.17)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105302 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105302 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.html Patch, Third Party Advisory