CVE-2008-1215 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1215
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41034 VULN-DEV http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/489031/30/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/488980/30/0/threaded SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29234 Secunia Advisory: SA29238 Secunia Advisory: SA29240 OPENBSD http://www.openbsd.org/errata41.html#014_ppp http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#009_ppp BID 28090

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