CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1215
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-03-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 6.3
• freebsd freebsd 7.0
• netbsd netbsd
• openbsd openbsd 4.1
• openbsd openbsd 4.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29234 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29238 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29240 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata41.html#014_ppp www.openbsd.org
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#009_ppp www.openbsd.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/488980/30/0/threaded Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/489031/30/0/threaded Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28090 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41034 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29234 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29238 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29240 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata41.html#014_ppp www.openbsd.org
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#009_ppp www.openbsd.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/488980/30/0/threaded Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/489031/30/0/threaded Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28090 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41034 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com