CVE-2010-4160: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.36.2 (fixed in 2.6.36.2)
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.2 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 10 only; version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 9 only; version 10 only; version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: version 10 only

Published 2011-01-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.