CVE-2018-8087

medium

Description

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-4/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-3/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-1/

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103397

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-03-13

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H