CVE-2007-2525 Information

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.

Reference

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.21-git8.log http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html http://secunia.com/advisories/25163 http://secunia.com/advisories/25700 http://secunia.com/advisories/25838 http://secunia.com/advisories/26133 http://secunia.com/advisories/26139 http://secunia.com/advisories/26289 http://secunia.com/advisories/26450 http://secunia.com/advisories/26620 http://secunia.com/advisories/26664 http://secunia.com/advisories/27227 http://secunia.com/advisories/29058 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1356 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:171 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:196 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:216 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_51_kernel.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_53_kernel.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23870 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-486-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-489-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-510-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1703 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34150 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10594 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0376.html