Vulnerability CVE-2018-8087
Published: 2018-03-13

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.

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://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103397
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-3/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-4/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188
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