CVE-2008-1215

2008-03-0902:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

0.4%

JSON

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.

References

secunia.com/advisories/29234

secunia.com/advisories/29238

secunia.com/advisories/29240

www.openbsd.org/errata41.html#014_ppp

www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#009_ppp

www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/488980/30/0/threaded

www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/489031/30/0/threaded

www.securityfocus.com/bid/28090

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41034