description: Memory leak in the irda_bind function in net/irda/af_irda.c and later in drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly binding an AF_IRDA socket.
problem types: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
affected:
{
product: Linux Kernel
vendor: Linux Kernel
versions:
status: affected, version: before 4.17
}