Description
A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in ppp. Affected is the function dumpppp of the file pppdump/pppdump.c of the component pppdump. The manipulation of the argument spkt.buf/rpkt.buf leads to improper validation of array index. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The name of the patch is a75fb7b198eed50d769c80c36629f38346882cbf. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-216198 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: pppdump is not used in normal process of setting up a PPP connection, is not installed setuid-root, and is not invoked automatically in any scenario.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ppp-project/ppp/commit/a75fb7b198eed50d769c80c36629f38346882cbf
Third Party Advisory
https://vuldb.com/?id.216198
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J43NP7ABHOCIWOFHWCH6ZCZOYKZH6723/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/J43NP7ABHOCIWOFHWCH6ZCZOYKZH6723/
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0014
EPSS Percentile
33.3%
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (1)
samba/ppp
< 2.5.0 (2 CPE variants)
Published
Dec 18, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026