CVE-2010-2495
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 2.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-476
- EPSS score
- 2.9% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2499)
- Published
- September 8, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2499 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- linux / linux kernel
- suse / suse linux enterprise desktop
- suse / suse linux enterprise high availability extension
- suse / suse linux enterprise server
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3feec9095d12e311b7d4eb7fe7e5dfa75d4a72a5
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00000.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/23/3(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/04/2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/04/3(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/06/11(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607054(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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