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CVE-2009-2903

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 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: 2009-09-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04
• Linux kernel: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.37.6; from 2.6.0 through 2.6.31
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 10-sp2, 10-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 10-sp2, 10-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 9, 10-sp2, 10-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 10-sp2, 10-sp3

References

• 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.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36707
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37105
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37909
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/14/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/14/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/17/11

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