CVE-2018-6554

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.

• CWE-400
• CWE-772

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105302Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308Third Party Advisory
• https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105302Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308Third Party Advisory
• https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory

Published

Sep 4, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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