Vulnerability CVE-2018-6554
Published: 2018-09-04

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.

Type:

CWE-772

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105302
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.html
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.html
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