CVE-2024-27016 (GCVE-0-2024-27016)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-01 05:29
Modified
2026-08-05 11:28
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: flowtable: validate pppoe header Ensure there is sufficient room to access the protocol field of the PPPoe header. Validate it once before the flowtable lookup, then use a helper function to access protocol field.
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