CVE-2018-6554
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-04 18:00
Modified
2024-09-17 01:41
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
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| ▼ | Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel |
Version: before 4.17 |
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