CVE-2007-2525

CVE Details

Release Date:	2007-05-08
Impact:	Important	What is this?

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.9
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2007-0488	2007-06-26
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.2.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2007-0488	2007-06-26
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.2.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2007-0488	2007-06-26
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2007-0376	2007-06-26
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-8.1.6.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2007-0376	2007-06-26
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-8.1.6.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2007-0376	2007-06-26