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CVE-2007-2525

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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.

Date published : 2007-05-08

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23870

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.21-git8.log

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