Security Advisory
CVE-2018-6554
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
September 4, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory