CVE-2024-56659

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Dec 27, 2024
Updated: Jan 6, 2025

Summary

CVE-2024-56659: A vulnerability was discovered in the net/lapb code of the Linux kernel, specifically the increase of LAPB_HEADER_LEN. It is unclear if this code is intended to support 8021q. This issue can potentially lead to a crash, as demonstrated by the stack trace which includes an invalid opcode error. The crash occurred during the transmission of LAPB data, and the kernel's netdevice subsystem was involved. The vulnerability has been resolved.

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