CVE-2008-2750

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-06-10
Bugzilla:
452096: CVE-2008-2750 kernel: l2tp: Fix potential memory corruption in pppol2tp-recvmsg() (Heap corruption DoS)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The 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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2750 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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