CVE-2026-75883 (GCVE-0-2026-75883)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-18 15:29
Modified
2026-11-06 00:43
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
Summary
A flaw was found in pppd. A remote attacker could exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability in the PEAP response handling. By sending a specially crafted PEAP Request packet, an attacker could cause the pppd process to corrupt global static data, leading to incorrect behavior or a system crash.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10     cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
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