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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 13, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-8087

CVE-2018-8087

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.

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