CVE-2018-6554CWE-400

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…

published September 4, 2018

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
42.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00506 · 42.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2018-09-04T18:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 SEP 18:00Z
    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…
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