UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6554

Details

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.

Affected Packages(28 packages)

linux

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Fixed in:

3.13.0-160.210

linux-aws

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.4.0-1031.34

linux-azure

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.15.0-1031.32~14.04.1

linux-lts-xenial

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.4.0-137.163~14.04.1

linux

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.4.0-137.163

linux-aws

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.4.0-1069.79

linux-azure

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.15.0-1025.26~16.04.1

linux-gcp

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.15.0-1021.22~16.04.1

linux-hwe

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.15.0-36.39~16.04.1

linux-kvm

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

4.4.0-1035.41

References

REPORT

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6554

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3775-1

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3775-2

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3776-1

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3776-2

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3777-1

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3777-2

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3777-3

REPORT

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6554