CVE - CVE-2010-2495

CVE-ID
CVE-2010-2495	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MISC:SUSE-SA:2010:033 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00000.html MISC:USN-1000-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 MISC:[oss-security] 20100623 kernel: l2tp: Fix oops in pppol2tp_xmit URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/23/3 MISC:[oss-security] 20100704 Re: CVE Request: kernel: l2tp: Fix oops in pppol2tp_xmit URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/04/3 MISC:[oss-security] 20100704 Re: kernel: l2tp: Fix oops in pppol2tp_xmit URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/04/2 MISC:[oss-security] 20100706 Re: CVE Request: kernel: l2tp: Fix oops in pppol2tp_xmit URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/06/11 MISC:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3feec9095d12e311b7d4eb7fe7e5dfa75d4a72a5 URL:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3feec9095d12e311b7d4eb7fe7e5dfa75d4a72a5 MISC:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34 URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34 MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607054 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607054
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20100628	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20100628)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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