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.

Score
CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium
Status
Modified - security@ubuntu.com
Published
2018-09-04
Last modified
2024-09-17
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-772

Affected products

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