DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6554

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6554

    Published: 4 Sept 2018Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-6554

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6554

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.17.3-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High