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CVE-2007-2525

CVSS v2.0 4.9 (Medium)
49% Progress
EPSS 0.06 % (28th)
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Affected Products 1
Advisories 4
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-NVD-Other
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
MITRE
Published Date
2007-05-08 23:19:00
(17 years ago)
Updated Date
2017-10-11 01:32:15
(7 years ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel Git7 2.6.21 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::git7 <= 2.6.21