CVE-2020-25643
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-10-06 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 15:40
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00042.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879981Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=66d42ed8b25b64eb63111a2b8582c5afc8bf1105Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00028.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201103-0002/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4774Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20210325-0002/Third Party Advisory
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