{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2010-11-01T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: L2TP send buffer allocation size overflows",
    "id" : "651892",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651892"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "The Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 did not\ninclude L2TP functionality, and therefore are not affected by this\nissue. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat\nEnterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0330.html.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2011-03-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0330",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.7-rt29.55.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-01-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0007",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-71.14.1.el6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4160\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4160" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2010-4160",
  "csaw" : false
}