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CVE-2010-4160
high
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.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651892
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145673.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145248.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44762
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43291
http://secunia.com/advisories/43056
http://secunia.com/advisories/42932
http://secunia.com/advisories/42890
http://secunia.com/advisories/42801
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/12
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/10/16
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html