CVE-2002-0824: Freebsd Point-To-Point Protocol Daemon

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BSD pppd allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file that is specified as a tty device.

Affected products

• Freebsd Point-To-Point Protocol Daemon: affected versions not specified

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.