CVE-2018-6555

La función irda_setsockopt 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 (uso de memoria previamente liberada en ias_object y cierre inesperado del sistema) o cualquier otro tipo de impacto sin especificar mediante un socket AF_IRDA.

It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on the CPU core. This vulnerability is also known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (memory from the kernel or other processes). 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. Various other issues were also addressed.