GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2020-139

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published March 12, 2020

Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability: Ilja Van Sprundel discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in ppp. When receiving an EAP Request message in client mode, an attacker was able to overflow the rhostname array by providing a very long name (CVE-2020-8597).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	ppp	0 (affected), 2.4.7-13.1.mga7 (unaffected)	—

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