CVE-2007-2525

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…

published May 8, 2007

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
33.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00405 · 33.3th percentile
Published
2007-05-08T23:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 MAY 23:00Z
    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…
    cvelistv5