CVE-2018-6554 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5