CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4160
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-01-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
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 configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36.2)
• opensuse opensuse 11.2
• suse linux enterprise desktop 10
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise server 9
• suse linux enterprise server 10
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• suse linux enterprise software development kit 10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=253eacc070b114c2ec1f81b067d2fed7305467b0 git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8acfe468b0384e834a303f08ebc4953d72fb690a git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/16 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/12 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42801 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42932 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43056 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43291 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.2 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44762 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145248.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145673.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375 Third Party Advisory
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/cve-2010-4160-linux-kernel-l2tp-integer-overflows/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651892 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=253eacc070b114c2ec1f81b067d2fed7305467b0 git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8acfe468b0384e834a303f08ebc4953d72fb690a git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/16 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/12 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42801 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42932 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43056 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43291 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.2 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44762 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145248.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145673.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375 Third Party Advisory
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/cve-2010-4160-linux-kernel-l2tp-integer-overflows/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651892 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory