A malicious PPP peer can exploit CVE-2026-58095 and CVE-2026-58096 to crash ppp(8) or potentially execute arbitrary code as root.
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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000
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| Description | LcpDecodeConfig() did not validate the length of received endpoint discriminator options against the minimum required by RFC 1717. Undersized options would trigger an out-of-bounds write. A malicious PPP peer can exploit CVE-2026-58095 and CVE-2026-58096 to crash ppp(8) or potentially execute arbitrary code as root. | |
| Title | ppp(8): missing length validation in LcpDecodeConfig() | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-130 CWE-787 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: freebsd
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-26T15:29:00.322Z
Reserved: 2026-06-29T01:40:17.499Z
Link: CVE-2026-58096
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-08-26T06:16:26.577
Modified: 2026-08-26T16:54:50.030
Link: CVE-2026-58096
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Updated: 2026-08-26T07:00:14Z