| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1356-1, DSA-1503-1, DSA-1503-2, DSA-1504-1 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Fixed in commit 202a03acf9994076055df40ae093a5c5474ad0bd in
Linus' tree.