# CVE-2024-26675: ppp_async: limit MRU to 64K

> A missing limit on the Maximum Receive Unit in the Linux kernel PPP async driver allows attackers to trigger a kernel warning and potential denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 2 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-26675, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26675, GHSA-782j-786c-25hh, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26675

## What is CVE-2024-26675?

CVE-2024-26675 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 2 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ppp_async: limit MRU to 64K

syzbot triggered a warning [1] in __alloc_pages():

WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER, gfp)

Willem fixed a similar issue in commit c0a2a1b0d631 ("ppp: limit MRU to 64K")

Adopt the same sanity check for ppp_async_ioctl(PPPIOCSMRU)

[1]:

 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 11 at mm/page_alloc.c:4543 __alloc_pages+0x308/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4543
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-syzkaller-g41bccc98fb79 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
pstate: 204000c5 (nzCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
 pc : __alloc_pages+0x308/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4543
 lr : __alloc_pages+0xc8/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4537
sp : ffff800093967580
x29: ffff800093967660 x28: ffff8000939675a0 x27: dfff800000000000
x26: ffff70001272ceb4 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff8000939675c0
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000060820 x21: 1ffff0001272ceb8
x20: ffff8000939675e0 x19: 0000000000000010 x18: ffff800093967120
x17: ffff800083bded5c x16: ffff80008ac97500 x15: 0000000000000005
x14: 1ffff0001272cebc x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ffff70001272cec1 x10: 1ffff0001272cec0 x9 : 0000000000000001
x8 : ffff800091c91000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f
x5 : 00000000ffffffff x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000020
x2 : 0000000000000008 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff8000939675e0
Call trace:
  __alloc_pages+0x308/0x698 mm/page_alloc.c:4543
  __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:238 [inline]
  alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:261 [inline]
  __kmalloc_large_node+0xbc/0x1fc mm/slub.c:3926
  __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:3969 [inline]
  __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x418/0x620 mm/slub.c:4001
  kmalloc_reserve+0x17c/0x23c net/core/skbuff.c:590
  __alloc_skb+0x1c8/0x3d8 net/core/skbuff.c:651
  __netdev_alloc_skb+0xb8/0x3e8 net/core/skbuff.c:715
  netdev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3235 [inline]
  dev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3248 [inline]
  ppp_async_input drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:863 [inline]
  ppp_asynctty_receive+0x588/0x186c drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:341
  tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x12c/0x15c drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:390
  tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x74/0xac drivers/tty/tty_port.c:37
  receive_buf drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:444 [inline]
  flush_to_ldisc+0x284/0x6e4 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:494
  process_one_work+0x694/0x1204 kernel/workqueue.c:2633
  process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2706 [inline]
  worker_thread+0x938/0xef4 kernel/workqueue.c:2787
  kthread+0x288/0x310 kernel/kthread.c:388
  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:860

Weakness: CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26675?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-26675?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-26675 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26675 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-26675 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-26675 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 2 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26675 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26675/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26675/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26675
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26675
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-26675

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