CVE-2018-6555 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.05% · 17.3th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.05%
17.3th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSlinux-kvm4.15.0-1010.10, 4.15.0-1011.11, 4.15.0-1016.16
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-azure4.11.0-1014.14, 4.11.0-1013.13, 4.11.0-1011.11
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-gcp*, 4.15.0-1019.20~16.04.1, 4.15.0-1018.19~16.04.2
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-hwe4.10.0-38.42~16.04.1, 4.8.0-56.61~16.04.1, 4.8.0-53.56~16.04.1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-snapdragon4.4.0-1076.81, 4.4.0-1077.82, 4.4.0-1078.83
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-lts-xenial0, *, *
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSlinux-azure4.15.0-1002.2, 4.15.0-1003.3, 4.15.0-1009.9
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde*, 5.4.0-1065.68+cvm2.1, 5.4.0-1085.90+cvm2.1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv5.15.0-1015.17, 5.15.0-1005.5, 5.15.0-1004.4
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSlinux-aws4.15.0-1010.10, 4.15.0-1009.9, 4.15.0-1007.7
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-aws4.4.0-1018.27, 4.4.0-1007.16, 4.4.0-1001.10
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-azure*, 0, 4.15.0-1023.24~14.04.1
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSlinux-gke5.4.0-1046.48, 5.4.0-1099.106, 5.4.0-1097.104
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-kvm0, 4.4.0-1032.38, 4.4.0-1033.39
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtime6.8.0-2019.20, 0
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSlinux-raspi25.3.0-1007.8, 0, 5.3.0-1017.19
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtime5.15.0-1032.35, 0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux3.13.0-147.196, 0, 3.11.0-12.19
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtime0, 5.15.0-1073.75
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSlinux-raspi24.15.0-1022.24, 4.13.0-1008.8, 4.15.0-1012.13

…and 8 more

Timeline

References

Open in Interactive Console →