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Bug 1555145 - (CVE-2018-8087) CVE-2018-8087 kernel: Memory leak in drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:hwsim_new_radio_nl() can lead to potential denial of service
CVE-2018-8087 kernel: Memory leak in drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:hw...
Status: ASSIGNED
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20180118,reported=2...
: Reopened, Security
Depends On: 1626463 1626464 1555146 1555147
Blocks: 1555148
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Reported: 2018-03-13 23:30 EDT by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2018-09-07 08:04 EDT (History)
47 users (show)

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Fixed In Version: kernel 4.16-rc1
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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.
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Last Closed: 2018-03-16 09:52:48 EDT
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-03-13 23:30:09 EDT 
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.

An upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51
Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-03-13 23:34:48 EDT 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1555147]
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2018-03-20 13:35:14 EDT 
kernel-4.15.10-200.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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