U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

CVE-2007-2525 Detail

Current 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.


View Analysis Description

Metrics

NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to [email protected].

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-Other Other cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

CPEs loading, please wait.

Denotes Vulnerable Software
Are we missing a CPE here? Please let us know.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-2525
NVD Published Date:
05/08/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE