CVE-2007-2525

Published May 8, 2007

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.9
Impact score: 6.9
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:git7:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "CA7B692E-12AF-42A9-AF20-36BBBFCD4F4E",
            "versionEndIncluding": "2.6.21"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References