CVE-2008-2750

NameCVE-2008-2750
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linux-2.6sourceetch(not affected)
linux-2.6source(unstable)2.6.26
linux-2.6.24source(unstable)2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.4

Notes

[etch] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code was introduced in 2.6.23)
6b6707a50c7598a83820077393f8823ab791abf8

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