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2018-03-13
Memory leak in the hwsim_new_radio_nl function in drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering an out-of-array error case.
| Products | Ubuntu_linux, Debian_linux, Linux_kernel |
| Type | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) |
| First patch |
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51 |
| Relevant file/s | ./drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c (modified, +3, -1) |
| Links |
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-1/ • https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029 • https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-3/ • https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-1/ • https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188 • https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-1/ • https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-4/ • http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51 • http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103397 • https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-2/ |
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