CVE-2018-6554

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.51%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-09-04 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE

CVE-2018-6554

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS

5.5

EPSS

0.51%

Linux

Original NVD 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.