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.
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651892 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4160 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4160 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2011-01-07T11:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:34:37.284Z

Reserved: 2010-11-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-4160

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-01-07T12:00:48.937

Modified: 2023-02-13T04:27:32.187

Link: CVE-2010-4160

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2010-11-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-4160 - Bugzilla