CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-2525

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2007-05-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-05-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

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 configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.21)

References