CVE-2006-4304

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-08-24 01:04:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:32:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 4.11

4.11

FreeBSD 5.3

5.3

FreeBSD 5.4

5.4

FreeBSD 5.5

5.5

FreeBSD 6.0

6.0

FreeBSD 6.1

6.1

NetBSD 2.0

2.0

NetBSD 3.0

3.0

NetBSD 4.0

4.0

OpenBSD 3.8

3.8

OpenBSD 3.9

3.9

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