CVE-2018-6554

Fuga de memoria en la función irda_bind en net/irda/af_irda.c y siguientes en drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c en el kernel de Linux en versiones anteriores a la 4.17 permite que usuarios locales provoquen una denegación de servicio (consumo de memoria) enlazando repetidamente un socket AF_IRDA.

It was discovered that the paravirtualization implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle some indirect calls, reducing the effectiveness of Spectre v2 mitigations for paravirtual guests. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. It was discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and prediction of return addresses via Return Stack Buffer may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.