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CVE-2018-8087
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-03-13T06:29:00.260 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:04:13.067

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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