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LIN8-9789 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2018-6554

Created: Sep 16, 2018    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Oct 26, 2018
Found In Version: 8.0.0.27
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Kernel

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.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6554

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