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CVE-2024-41044

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-07-29 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ppp: reject claimed-as-LCP but actually malformed packets Since 'ppp_async_encode()' assumes valid LCP packets (with code from 1 to 7 inclusive), add 'ppp_check_packet()' to ensure that LCP packet has an actual body beyond PPP_LCP header bytes, and reject claimed-as-LCP but actually malformed data otherwise.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References