ISOMAN

CVE

CVE-2018-6554

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.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
Published
Modified
NVD detailAll CVEs

Linked Releases

DistributionReleaseStatusEvidence
Ubuntu18.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu18.04.6 amd64 live-serverunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource

References

  1. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105302
  2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html
  3. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
  4. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/
  5. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/
  6. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/
  7. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/
  8. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/
  9. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/
  10. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/
  11. https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308
  12. https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.html
  13. https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.html
  14. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105302
  15. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html
  16. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
  17. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/
  18. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/
  19. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/
  20. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/