CVE-2018-6555 (GCVE-0-2018-6555)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-04 18:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:42
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Assigner
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| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
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| https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3775-2/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105304 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg255031.html | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel |
Affected:
before 4.17
|
guessed |
Date Public
2018-09-04 00:00
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.