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CVE-2024-56659
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2024-12-27T15:15:25.747 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:12:40.470

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: lapb: increase LAPB_HEADER_LEN It is unclear if net/lapb code is supposed to be ready for 8021q. We can at least avoid crashes like the following : skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8aabe1f6 len:24 put:20 head:ffff88802824a400 data:ffff88802824a3fe tail:0x16 end:0x140 dev:nr0.2 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:206 ! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5508 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-syzkaller-00144-g66418447d27b #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/30/2024 RIP: 0010:skb_panic net/core/skbuff.c:206 [inline] RIP: 0010:skb_under_panic+0x14b/0x150 net/core/skbuff.c:216 Code: 0d 8d 48

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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