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Tracker / CVE-2014-4943

CVE-2014-4943

Medium 6.9

The PPPoL2TP feature in net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.6 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging data-structure differences between an l2tp socket and an inet socket.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.23 → 3.2.62
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.27
linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.14.16
linux linux_kernel · 3.15 → 3.15.9
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.4.102
linux linux_kernel · 3.5 → 3.10.52
opensuse opensuse
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_server

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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