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CVE-2018-6554

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CVSS 3.0
5.5 medium
EPSS
<1%p42
Published
()
Modified
Description

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.

Vendors
linuxcanonicaldebian
Products
linux kernel, ubuntu linux, debian linux
Weakness
CWE-400, CWE-772
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.5%)

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