CVE-2007-2525 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-2525 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 292975 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2007:051, published Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2007:053, published Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:30:39 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:20:54 2023