{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2007-05-08T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "PPPoE socket PPPIOCGCHAN denial of service",
    "id" : "243262",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243262"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2007-06-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2007:0488",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-55.0.2.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2007-06-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2007:0376",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.6.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-2525\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2525" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2007-2525",
  "csaw" : false
}