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CVE-2007-2525

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2007-05-08 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References