CVE-2014-4943 (GCVE-0-2014-4943)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-07-19 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:34
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2014-07-16 00:00
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