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2018-09-04
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.
| Products | Ubuntu_linux, Debian_linux, Linux_kernel |
| Type | Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime (CWE-772) |
| First patch | - None (likely due to unavailable code) |
| Links |
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/ • https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html • https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/ • https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html • https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ • https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255034.html • https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/ • https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255030.html • http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105302 • https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/ |