CVE-2008-2750

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.0-test1, 2.6.0-test10, 2.6.0-test11, 2.6.0-test2, 2.6.0-test3 (+290)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6b6707a50c7598a83820077393f8823ab791abf8
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.26-rc6
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00009.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30719
http://secunia.com/advisories/30901
http://secunia.com/advisories/30920
http://secunia.com/advisories/31107
http://secunia.com/advisories/31202
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020297
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0207
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:167
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/19/3

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