Published: 04/09/2018 Updated: 09/10/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 436

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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 prior to 4.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly binding an AF_IRDA socket.

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks CVE-2018-6554 A memory leak in the irda_bind function in the irda subsystem was discovered A local user can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) CVE ...

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...

CVE-2018-6554

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