SUSE: CVE-2020-25643: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
8
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)
10/06/2020
02/09/2021
02/07/2021
02/04/2022
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(s)
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
- suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
- suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
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