anna-kravets/codeql-buffer-overflow-variant

PoC

Synthetic CWE-120 stack buffer overflow variant of CVE-2020-8597 (pppd EAP) as a CodeQL static-analysis target

view exploit source poc_in_githubauthor anna-kravetspublished 2026-08-12catalog poc_in_github

exploited CVEs (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2020-8597US	critical9.8	19.9% (97th)	Exploit	2020-02-03
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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