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CVE-2009-2903
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…
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 3.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
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By redhat
- 26 days later
· 26 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 9.8% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
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)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-2891 (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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