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Tracker / CVE-2010-4160

CVE-2010-4160

Medium 6.9

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 and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.36.2
opensuse opensuse
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_server
suse linux_enterprise_software_development_kit

Analysis

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