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CVE-2018-8087

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Linux kernel: through 4.15.9

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103397
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-3/

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