CVE-2018-6554

MEDIUM5.5

Memory leak in the irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda

Published Sep 4, 2018

Modified 1 years ago

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.

References

WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105302 WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/ADVISORYhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6554 ADVISORYhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308 WEBhttps://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.html WEBhttps://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.html

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.0

5.5

Exploitability

Attack Vector

LocalAV:L

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

LowPR:L

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

5.5/CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management

CWE-400

Resource Exhaustion

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedSep 4, 2018

ModifiedSep 17, 2024