CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0851

7.2 HIGH Published 2002-09-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-09-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Format string vulnerability in ISDN Point to Point Protocol (PPP) daemon (ipppd) in the ISDN4Linux (i4l) package allows local users to gain root privileges via format strings in the device name command line argument, which is not properly handled in a call to syslog.

Affected configurations

• isdn4linux isdn4linux 3.1 pre1

References