Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-1002 - Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Integer underflow in pppd in cbcp.c for ppp 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a CBCP packet with an invalid length value that causes pppd to access an incorrect memory location.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 | |
OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family | Gentoo Local Security Checks |
NASL id | GENTOO_GLSA-200411-01.NASL |
description | The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200411-01 (ppp: Remote denial of service vulnerability) The pppd server improperly verifies header fields, making it vulnerable to denial of service attacks. Impact An attacker can cause the pppd server to access memory that it isn't allowed to, causing the server to crash. No code execution is possible with this vulnerability, because no data is getting copied. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. |
last seen | 2016-09-26 |
modified | 2004-11-02 |
plugin id | 15589 |
published | 2004-11-02 |
reporter | Tenable |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=15589 |
title | [GLSA-200411-01] ppp: Remote denial of service vulnerability |
code |
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Statements
contributor | Mark J Cox |
lastmodified | 2006-08-30 |
organization | Red Hat |
statement | This issue is only will only cause a denial of service on the connection the attacker is using. It therefore is not a security issue. |