CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-1215

Published: Mar 09, 2008 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Freebsd Freebsd 6.3 (including) 6.3 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Netbsd Netbsd * *
Openbsd Openbsd 4.1 (including) 4.1 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 4.2 (including) 4.2 (including)

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