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 products
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n/aaffected
References
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.21-git8.log ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1703 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27227 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26664 ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_51_kernel.html ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_53_kernel.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26289 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23870 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10594 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25838 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:171 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-510-1 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1356 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:216 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26620 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-489-1 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34150 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:196 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25163 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503 ↗
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29058 ↗
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0376.html ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-486-1 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26450 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25700 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26139 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26133 ↗