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Bug#391289: kfreebsd-5: several security issues in freebsd



severity 391289 normal
thanks

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:07:33PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> CVE-2006-4304:
> 
> Buffer overflow in the sppp driver in FreeBSD 4.11 through 6.1, NetBSD
> 2.0 through 4.0 beta before 20060823, and OpenBSD 3.8 and 3.9 before
> 20060902 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic),
> obtain sensitive information, and possibly execute arbitrary code via
> crafted Link Control Protocol (LCP) packets with an option length that
> exceeds the overall length, which triggers the overflow in (1) pppoe
> and (2) ippp.  NOTE: this issue was originally incorrectly reported
> for the ppp driver.

This one has been fixed in version 5.4-18. I am therefore downgrading
the severity to normal, as the two other bugs are not considered to be
exploitable by the FreeBSD security team.

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