MiracleLinux 4 : ppp-2.4.5-11.AXS4 (AXSA:2020-4482:02)

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2020-4482:02 advisory. ppp: Buffer overflow in the eaprequest and eapresponse functions in eap.c CVE-2020-8597 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from t...

eap.c in pppd in ppp 2.4.2 through 2.4.8 has an rhostname buffer overflow in the eap_request and eap_response functions.

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