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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2024· Updated Nov 4, 2025

netfilter: flowtable: validate pppoe header

CVE-2024-27016

Description

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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