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Re: [ GLSA 200411-01 ] ppp: Remote denial of service vulnerability
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus () samba org>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:12:30 +1100
Luke Macken writes:
The pppd server improperly verifies header fields, making it vulnerable to denial of service attacks. Impact ====== An attacker can cause the pppd server to access memory that it isn't allowed to, causing the server to crash. No code execution is possible with this vulnerability, because no data is getting copied.
Furthermore, only the connection to the attacker will be affected, since a separate pppd process handles each ppp connection. In other words, an attacker can terminate their own connection, but they can not affect any other connection, or prevent new connections from being established. Given that, I don't think that this is even a DoS vulnerability. Paul. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- [ GLSA 200411-01 ] ppp: Remote denial of service vulnerability Luke Macken (Nov 01)
- Re: [ GLSA 200411-01 ] ppp: Remote denial of service vulnerability Paul Mackerras (Nov 01)