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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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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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-09-04T18:29:00.343
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:10:53.673
Link: CVE-2018-6554
Redhat