CVE-2007-2525

Impact

Memory leak in the PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) socket implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21-git8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by creating a socket using connect, and releasing it before the PPPIOCGCHAN ioctl is initialized.

Affected products

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.21-git8.log
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25163
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25700
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25838
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26133
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26139
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26289
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26450
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26620
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26664
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27227
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29058
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm
• http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1356
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:171
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:196
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:216
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_51_kernel.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_53_kernel.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23870
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-486-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-489-1