UBUNTU-CVE-2018-8087

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-8087

    Published: 13 Mar 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-8087
    Aliases:
    USN-3676-1
    USN-3676-2
    USN-3677-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8087, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3676-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3676-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3677-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3677-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3678-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3678-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3678-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3678-4, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8087

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-aws

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.4.0-1023.23

    Affected versions

    4.4.0-1002.2
    4.4.0-1003.3
    4.4.0-1005.5
    4.4.0-1006.6
    4.4.0-1009.9
    4.4.0-1010.10
    4.4.0-1011.11
    4.4.0-1012.12
    4.4.0-1014.14
    4.4.0-1016.16
    4.4.0-1017.17
    4.4.0-1019.19
    4.4.0-1022.22

    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