Security Advisory

CVE-2009-2903

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-09-15 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 06:07:37
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.