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High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Oct 6, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-25643

CVE-2020-25643

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.

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