Title: Kppp Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Kppp is a dialer and pppd front end. There exits a buffer overflow in the setuid kppp program. This allows local intruders to gain root access. If you pass to the '-c' argument of kppp a string longer than 246 bytes it will segment fault.
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