CVE-2018-6555
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-04 18:00
Modified
2024-09-16 23:42
Severity ?
Summary
The irda_setsockopt 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 (ias_object use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an AF_IRDA socket.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105304Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@ubuntu.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.htmlThird Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255031.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255035.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Linux KernelLinux Kernel
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