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	Software Inspectors   Scan Online   Personal (PSI)   Network (NSI 2.0) Solutions For   Security Professionals   Security Vendors Free Solutions For   Open Communities   Journalists & Media Secunia Advisories   Search   Historic Advisories   Listed By Product   Listed By Vendor   Statistics / Graphs   Secunia Research   Report Vulnerability   About Advisories Virus Information   Chronological List   Last 10 Virus Alerts   About Virus Information Secunia Customers   Customer Area CVE Reference: CVE-2007-2525 NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE. Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2007-2525 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. CVE Status: Candidate References: XF   http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34150 UBUNTU   http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-510-1   http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-489-1   http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-486-1 SUSE   http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_51_kernel.html   http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_53_kernel.html SAID   Secunia Advisory: SA26139   Secunia Advisory: SA26133   Secunia Advisory: SA25838   Secunia Advisory: SA25700   Secunia Advisory: SA25163   Secunia Advisory: SA26289   Secunia Advisory: SA26450   Secunia Advisory: SA26620   Secunia Advisory: SA26664   Secunia Advisory: SA27227   Secunia Advisory: SA29058 REDHAT   http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html MANDRIVA   http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:171   http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:196   http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:216 DEBIAN   http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503   http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504   http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1356 CONFIRM   http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm   http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.21-git8.log BID   23870 Return to the previous page. Secunia PSI Scan | Patch | Track Free Download Secunia Poll Do you think it's important to read Setup/User Guides for applications for use within your network? Yes, I do it all the time Yes, but I do it rarely No See Results    Most Popular Advisories 1. Linux Kernel LDT Buffer Size Handling Vulnerability 2. OpenBSD BIND Query Port DNS Cache Poisoning 3. Drupal Session Fixation Vulnerability 4. Red Hat update for thunderbird 5. Apple Safari Cross-Domain Cookie Injection Vulnerability 6. Red Hat update for kernel 7. Slackware update for dnsmasq 8. IPCop update for perl 9. Ubuntu update for php 10. dnsmasq Denial of Service and DNS Cache Poisoning
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