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.

Link	Resource
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.html	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.html	Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105302	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/	Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/	Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Published : 2018-09-04 06:29

Updated : 2019-10-09 11:41

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NVD link : CVE-2018-6554

Mitre link : CVE-2018-6554

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