vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-25020: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 8, 2021
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.17 mishandles situations with a long jump over an instruction sequence where inner instructions require substantial expansions into multiple BPF instructions, leading to an overflow. This affects kernel/bpf/core.c and net/core/filter.c.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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