Memory leak in the appletalk subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x through 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x through 2.6.31, when the appletalk and ipddp modules are loaded but the ipddp"N" device is not found, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via IP-DDP datagrams.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1915-1 New Linux 2.6.26 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1928-1 New Linux 2.6.24 packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-2891 Memory leak in the appletalk subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x through 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x through 2.6.31, when the appletalk and ipddp modules are loaded but the ipddp"N" device is not found, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via IP-DDP datagrams.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-852-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:07:37.216Z

Reserved: 2009-08-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-2903

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-09-15T22:30:00.297

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-2903

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-2903 - Bugzilla

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