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CVE-2018-8087
Memory leak in the hwsim_new_radio_nl function in drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.9 allows local…
Medium5.5EPSS 0.46%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Memory leak in the hwsim_new_radio_nl function in drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering an out-of-array error case.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.46% · top 60% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (14)
- USN-3676-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3678-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- USN-3678-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3677-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 103397 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-4188 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-3678-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3677-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3676-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- USN-3678-4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2043 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-19766 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-8087)Record last updated .