CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
28.2%
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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 6.06 | noarch | linux-source-2.6.15 | < 2.6.15-29.58 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 6.10 | noarch | linux-source-2.6.17 | < 2.6.17.1-12.40 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | linux-source-2.6.20 | < 2.6.20-16.31 | UNKNOWN |