vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-25643: linux -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
Oct 6, 2020
Added
Oct 21, 2020
Modified
Aug 17, 2022

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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