| Name | CVE-2020-8597 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2097-1, DSA-4632-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 950618, 951291 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| lwip (PTS) | buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.0.3-3+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.1.2+dfsg1-8+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.1.3+dfsg1-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.2.0+dfsg1-8 | fixed |
| ppp (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.4.6-3.1+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.4.7-1+4+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.4.7-2+4.1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.4.9-1+1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.4.9-1+1.1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.5.0-1+2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/lwip.git/commit/?id=2ee3cbe69c6d2805e64e7cac2a1c1706e49ffd86
https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp/commit/8d7970b8f3db727fe798b65f3377fe6787575426