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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2018-09-04T18:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T01:41:05.683Z

Reserved: 2018-02-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-6554

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-04T18:29:00.343

Modified: 2019-10-09T23:41:54.547

Link: CVE-2018-6554

cve-icon Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-6554 - Bugzilla