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CVE-2018-6554
medium
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.
References
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.html
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html