CVE-2018-6554

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.17.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.17.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.17.3-1
debian debiansidfixed4.17.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.17.3-1

References

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.