CVE-2002-0851: ISDN4LINUX

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in ISDN Point to Point Protocol (PPP) daemon (ipppd) in the ISDN4Linux (i4l) package allows local users to gain root privileges via format strings in the device name command line argument, which is not properly handled in a call to syslog.

Affected products

• ISDN4LINUX ISDN4LINUX: version 3.1_pre1 only

Published 2002-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.