CVE-2018-8087

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p38

Published

Mar 13, 2018 (Mar 13, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Memory leak in the hwsim_new_radio_nl function in drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering an out-of-array error case.

Vendors: linux debian canonical
Products: linux kernel, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Weakness: CWE-772
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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