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.
References
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http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.21-git8.log cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25163 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25700 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25838 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26133 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26139 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26289 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26450 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26620 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26664 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27227 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29058 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1356 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:171 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:196 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:216 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_51_kernel.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_53_kernel.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23870 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-486-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-489-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-510-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1703 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34150 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2525 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10594 cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0376.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-2525 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon 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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-05-08T23:19:00.000

Modified: 2017-10-11T01:32:15.580

Link: CVE-2007-2525

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2007-05-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-2525 - Bugzilla