CVE-2006-4304

Published Aug 24, 2006 CVSS 2.0 · 10.0 Critical EPSS 11.9% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-4292 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 7:06 PM
Reserved
Aug 22, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 24, 2006, 1:04 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:28 PM