Red Hat Security Advisory: ppp security update
An update for ppp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2020-8597US | critical9.8 | Exploit | ||
eap.c in pppd in ppp 2.4.2 through 2.4.8 has an rhostname buffer overflow in the eap_request and eap_response functions. | ||||
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remediations (14)
- Fixedppp-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0634 - Fixedppp-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0634 - Fixedppp-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0634 - Fixedppp-debuginfo-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0634 - Fixedppp-debuginfo-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0634 - Fixedppp-debugsource-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0634 - Fixedppp-debugsource-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0634 - Workaroundppp-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
Red Hat is working on providing updates packages which patches this flaw. This flaw can only be mitigated by updating to these package versions. The "Stack Smashing Protection" may help mitigate code execution attacks for this flaw and limit its impact to crash only.
- Workaroundppp-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
Red Hat is working on providing updates packages which patches this flaw. This flaw can only be mitigated by updating to these package versions. The "Stack Smashing Protection" may help mitigate code execution attacks for this flaw and limit its impact to crash only.
- Workaroundppp-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
Red Hat is working on providing updates packages which patches this flaw. This flaw can only be mitigated by updating to these package versions. The "Stack Smashing Protection" may help mitigate code execution attacks for this flaw and limit its impact to crash only.
- Workaroundppp-debuginfo-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
Red Hat is working on providing updates packages which patches this flaw. This flaw can only be mitigated by updating to these package versions. The "Stack Smashing Protection" may help mitigate code execution attacks for this flaw and limit its impact to crash only.
- Workaroundppp-debuginfo-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
Red Hat is working on providing updates packages which patches this flaw. This flaw can only be mitigated by updating to these package versions. The "Stack Smashing Protection" may help mitigate code execution attacks for this flaw and limit its impact to crash only.
- Workaroundppp-debugsource-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
Red Hat is working on providing updates packages which patches this flaw. This flaw can only be mitigated by updating to these package versions. The "Stack Smashing Protection" may help mitigate code execution attacks for this flaw and limit its impact to crash only.
- Workaroundppp-debugsource-0:2.4.7-26.el8_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0)
Red Hat is working on providing updates packages which patches this flaw. This flaw can only be mitigated by updating to these package versions. The "Stack Smashing Protection" may help mitigate code execution attacks for this flaw and limit its impact to crash only.
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