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TITLE:
OpenBSD ppp Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29234

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29234/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
OpenBSD 4.2
http://secunia.com/product/16045/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenBSD, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the use of vulnerable user-ppp
code.

For more information:
SA29240

SOLUTION:
Restrict local access to trusted users only.

The vendor has committed a patch to CVS.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp/command.c.diff?r1=1.91&r2=1.92

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://seclists.org/vuln-dev/2008/Feb/0010.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA29240:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29240/

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