CVE-2008-2750 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2008-2750?

CVE-2008-2750 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-2750?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2008-2750?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-2750 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2008-2750 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2750 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7f8x-7rcp-rcjq.