CVE-2024-27016: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 38 only; version 39 only; version 40 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.13, before 5.15.157 (fixed in 5.15.157); from 5.16, before 6.1.88 (fixed in 6.1.88); from 6.2, before 6.6.29 (fixed in 6.6.29); from 6.7, before 6.8.8 (fixed in 6.8.8); version 6.9 only

Published 2024-05-01. Last modified 2026-08-04.