CVE-2018-8087 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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

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