CVE-2010-4160

EPSS 0.5%

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) pppol2tp_sendmsg function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c, and the (2) l2tp_ip_sendmsg function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c, in the PPPoL2TP and IPoL2TP implementations in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 allow local users to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and panic) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted sendto call.

Affected products

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=253eacc070b114c2ec1f81b067d2fed7305467b0 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8acfe468b0384e834a303f08ebc4953d72fb690a http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/16 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/12 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/6