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Tracker / CVE-2018-8087

CVE-2018-8087

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.15.9

Analysis

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