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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.8% · top 9.8% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-772 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-772 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (15)

• [oss-security] 20090917 Re: CVE-2009-2903 kernel: appletalk: denial of service when handling IP tunnelled over DDP datagrams (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 36379 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2009:061 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-852-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 36707 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522331 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• MDVSA-2009:329 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20090914 CVE-2009-2903 kernel: appletalk: denial of service when handling IP tunnelled over DDP datagrams (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2010:012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 37909 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2009:064 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ffcfb8db540ff879c2a85bf7e404954281443414 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2010:013 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 37105 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20090914 Re: CVE-2009-2903 kernel: appletalk: denial of service when handling IP tunnelled over DDP datagrams (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 06:07 UTC.