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SUSE: CVE-2018-6555: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-6555: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/04/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/17/2018
Modified
02/04/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-man
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-devel-azure
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs-azure
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source-azure

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:2775-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2776-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2858-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2862-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2879-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2907-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2908-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2908-2
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2980-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2981-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:3083-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:3084-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:3088-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:3961-1
  • USN-3775-1
  • USN-3775-2
  • USN-3776-1
  • USN-3776-2
  • USN-3777-1
  • USN-3777-2
  • USN-3777-3
  • DSA-4308
  • CVE-2018-6555
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