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Tracker / CVE-2009-2903

CVE-2009-2903

High 7.1

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 and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.4.0 → 2.4.37.6
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.0 → 2.6.31
suse linux_enterprise_debuginfo
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_server
suse linux_enterprise_software_development_kit

Analysis

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