CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2495
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-09-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
The pppol2tp_xmit function in drivers/net/pppol2tp.c in the L2TP implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly validate certain values associated with an interface, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to a routing change.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.34)
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.10
• suse suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse suse linux enterprise high availability extension 11
• suse suse linux enterprise server 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3feec9095d12e311b7d4eb7fe7e5dfa75d4a72a5 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/23/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/04/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/04/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/06/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607054 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3feec9095d12e311b7d4eb7fe7e5dfa75d4a72a5 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/23/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/04/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/04/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/06/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607054 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory