VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel.
Advisory: CVE-2018-6554
Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2018-6554
CVSS severity score: 4.9/10.0
Description:
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.
This bug was filed by http://go/vomit
Please contact us at vomit-team@google.com if you need any assistance.
Comment 1 by zsm@chromium.org
, Oct 26Labels: Security_Severity-Medium Security_Impact-None Pri-3
Owner: zsm@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
The patch sent to the stable mailing list is ("irda: Fix memory leak caused by repeated binds of irda socket"). This patch is not present in mainline; in 4.4.y it is present as 4a7811bb3a. CONFIG_IRDA is not enabled in any of the kernels, so marking as WontFix.