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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedMar 13, 2018
First seenMar 13, 2018

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv ≤ 4.15.9—
debian debian_linux9.0—
canonical ubuntu_linux14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04—

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