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CVE-2018-8087

CVSS v3.0 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
CVSS v2.0 4.9 (Medium)
49% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (11th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 3
Advisories 17
Info CVSS EPSS CAPEC Affected Configurations References Security Advisories Packages & Software OVAL Tools, Exploits & PoC Graph Web & Social Timeline

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.

Weaknesses
CWE-772
Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
MITRE
Published Date
2018-03-13 06:29:00
(6 years ago)
Updated Date
2019-10-03 00:03:26
(5 years ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Debian

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 4.15.9 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel <= 4.15.9

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 9.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts