Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ppp-modem  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-PPPMODEM-2714985
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed26 Feb 2020

Introduced: 26 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-8597  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.

NVD Description

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

eap.c in pppd in ppp 2.4.2 through 2.4.8 has an rhostname buffer overflow in the eap_request and eap_response functions.

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