CVE-2020-25643
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 6, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 16, 2020
Description
A flaw was found in the HDLC_PPP module of the Linux kernel in versions before 5.9-rc7. Memory corruption and a read overflow is caused by improper input validation in the ppp_cp_parse_cr function which can cause the system to crash or cause a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
Scores
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Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
kerneln/a |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879981
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=66d42ed8b25b64eb63111a2b8582c5afc8bf1105
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1655vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1698vendor-advisory
- DSA-4774vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201028 [SECURITY] [DLA 2417-1] linux-4.19 security updatemailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201030 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-1] linux security updatemailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201031 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-2] linux regression updatemailing-list
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201103-0002/
- https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20210325-0002/
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