A critical Buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the pppD ( Point to Point Protocol Daemon) Let remote attackers exploit the Linux systems remotely and gain the root-level privileges.
pppD ( Point to Point Protocol Daemon) often used to manage the network connections in Unix based operating systems, also it used to manage broadband connections such as DSL, if (PPPoE) or (PPPoA) is used.
A researcher found this critical vulnerability that resides in the Extensible Authentication Protocol ( EAP ) packet processing in the Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon (pppd).
An unauthenticated remote attacker may be able to cause a stack buffer overflow by exploiting this vulnerability. It may allow attackers to remotely taking over the code execution of a process and perform arbitrary code execution on the target system.
Ilja Van Sprundel has discovered this vulnerability that can be tracked as CVE-2020-8597 with a 9.3 CVE score. GBHackers found no exploit code at this moment in online for this vulnerability.
Following Linux distribution has been confirmed this vulnerability that running with pppd (Point to Point Protocol Daemon) versions 2.4.2 through 2.4.8.
Also, the following vendors are issued an update about the remote pppD remote code execution vulnerability,
The buffer overflow vulnerability affected several Linux distribution due to an error invalidating the size of the input before copying the supplied data into memory.
During the input size validation, if the validation of the data size is incorrect, it leads to Copy the arbitrary data into memory and causes memory corruption that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely.
Since the data is unverified and the size is unknown, the vulnerability corrupt the memory of the target system.
Also, the PPP runs with high privileges and works in conjunction with kernel drivers to let attackers gain root-level privileges. by potentially execute arbitrary code with system.
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