CVE-2008-1215: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the command_Expand_Interpret function in command.c in ppp (aka user-ppp), as distributed in FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0, OpenBSD 4.1 and 4.2, and the net/userppp package for NetBSD, allows local users to gain privileges via long commands containing "~" characters.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 6.3 only; version 7.0 only
• Netbsd Netbsd: any version
• OpenBSD OpenBSD: version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only

Published 2008-03-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.