CVE-2018-8087

Fuga de memoria en la función hwsim_new_radio_nl en drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c en el kernel de Linux hasta la versión 4.15.9 permite que usuarios locales provoquen una denegación de servicio (consumo de memoria) desencadenando un caso de error fuera de array.

The Linux kernel is vulnerable to a memory leak in the drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:hwsim_new_radio_nl() function. An attacker could exploit this to cause a potential denial of service.

Alexei Starovoitov discovered that the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) implementation in the Linux kernel contained a branch-pruning logic issue around unreachable code. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. The ext4_iget function in fs/ext4/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.15 mishandles the case of a root directory with a zero i_links_count, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (ext4_process_freed_data NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted ext4 image. Various other issues were also addressed.