Security Advisory

CVE-2018-6555

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-09-04 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-16 23:42:04
Assigner canonical
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The irda_setsockopt 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 (ias_object use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an AF_IRDA socket.