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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2007-05-08T23:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T13:42:33.440Z
Reserved: 2007-05-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-2525
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2007-05-08T23:19:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:30:59.597
Link: CVE-2007-2525
Redhat