Published: 09/03/2008 Updated: 08/08/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 465

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Stack-based buffer overflow in the command_Expand_Interpret function in command.c in ppp (aka user-ppp), as distributed in FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0, OpenBSD 4.1 and 4.2, and the net/userppp package for NetBSD, allows local users to gain privileges via long commands containing "~" characters.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/28090/info BSD PPP is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input Attackers can leverage this issue to crash the application and deny service to legitimate users Given the nature of the issue, arbitrary code execution may al ...

CWE-264 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/488980/30/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/489031/30/0/threaded http://www.openbsd.org/errata41.html#014_ppp http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#009_ppp http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28090 http://secunia.com/advisories/29234 http://secunia.com/advisories/29238 http://secunia.com/advisories/29240 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41034 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31333/

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