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HistorySep 27, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

K95005525 : Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2018-6554

2018-09-2700:00:00
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5.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.1%

Security Advisory 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. (CVE-2018-6554)

Impact

There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.