National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2750
Original release date:06/18/2008
Last revised:09/11/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (06/23/2008)
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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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External Source: BID
Name: 29747
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-5893
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2629
External Source: XF
Name: linux-kernel-pppol2tprecvmsg-dos(43111)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-625-1
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080619 Re: query on a pppol2tp_recvmsg() fix - security relevant?
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:167
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1854
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0207
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020297
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31202
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31107
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30920
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30901
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30719
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:037
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.26-rc6
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6b6707a50c7598a83820077393f8823ab791abf8