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CVE-2008-1215

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
09/03/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.60
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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