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CVE-2018-6554
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-04T18:29:00.343 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:02:00.913

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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