CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-8087
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-13
- 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-772
Description
Memory leak in the hwsim_new_radio_nl function in drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering an out-of-array error case.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.15.9)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103397 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043 access.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51 Patch
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-3/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-4/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103397 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043 access.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51 Patch
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-3/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-4/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188 Third Party Advisory