CVE-2009-2903
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.1 · CWE-772
7.1CVSS HIGH
Summary
Memory leak in the appletalk subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x through 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x through 2.6.31, when the appletalk and ipddp modules are loaded but the ipddp"N" device is not found, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via IP-DDP datagrams.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ffcfb8db540ff879c2a85bf7e404954281443414
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00002.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36707Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37105Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37909Advisory