Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ppp  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-PPP-605437
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed1 Sept 2020

Introduced: 19 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-15704  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ppp package and not the ppp package as distributed by Debian.

The modprobe child process in the ./debian/patches/load_ppp_generic_if_needed patch file incorrectly handled module loading. A local non-root attacker could exploit the MODPROBE_OPTIONS environment variable to read arbitrary root files. Fixed in 2.4.5-5ubuntu1.4, 2.4.5-5.1ubuntu2.3+esm2, 2.4.7-1+2ubuntu1.16.04.3, 2.4.7-2+2ubuntu1.3, 2.4.7-2+4.1ubuntu5.1, 2.4.7-2+4.1ubuntu6. Was ZDI-CAN-11504.