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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 8, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2007-2525

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.

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Affected products

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  • Linux/Kernel2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:git7:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:git7:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=2.6.21
    • (no CPE)range: <2.6.21-git8

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