Vulnerability in FreeBSD
CVE-2008-1215
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (54.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 55th percentile — 54.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/29238 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.openbsd.org/errata42.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/488980/30/0/threaded (mailing-list, Exploit)
- www.openbsd.org/errata41.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/489031/30/0/threaded (mailing-list, Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/28090 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41034 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/29234 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29240 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)