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CVE-2008-2750

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2008-06-18 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The pppol2tp_recvmsg function in drivers/net/pppol2tp.c in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.26-rc6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel heap memory corruption and system crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PPPOL2TP packet that results in a large value for a certain length variable.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References