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CVE-2018-6554

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Date: September 4, 2018

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.

Language: C

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Related Resources (15)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105302
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6554
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-6554

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CWE-772

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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