ROS-20260120-7335

A vulnerability in the bpfprogram function of the driver drivers/net/ppp/pppgeneric.c of the Linux kernel is related to the use of an uninitialized pointer. Exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service...

kernel: ppp: reject claimed-as-LCP but actually malformed packets

The vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's ppp pppgeneric.c driver, in the pppread and pppwrite functions where malformed packets were erroneously identified as LCP packets, leading to potential issues with packet handling. This flaw could potentially lead to system instability...