CVE-2026-75883 PUBLISHED

PPPD buffer overflow in PEAP response code

Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 18.08.2026 Published: 18.09.2026 Updated: 18.09.2026

The code in pppd that formats a response to a PEAP Request packet in peap_response() copies an entire TLS record of up to 16384 bytes into the fixed global buffer outpacket_buf without checking the available space and without implementing outgoing PEAP fragmentation. Thus a pppd process connecting to a server which requests PEAP authentication can be induced to corrupt global static data following the outpacket_buf array, most likely causing incorrect behavior or a crash.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.8

Product Status

Vendor PPP Project
Product ppp
Versions Default: unknown
  • affected from 0 to 2.5.0 (incl.)
  • Version 2.5.4 is unaffected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-122 Heap-based buffer overflow CWE