ghsa-6q2v-x4cv-ghqx
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:31
Modified
2022-05-13 01:31
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2018-6554"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-772"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2018-09-04T18:29:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-6q2v-x4cv-ghqx",
  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:31:59Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:31:59Z",
  "references": [
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6554"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
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      "type": "WEB",
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.html"
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    {
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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