A vulnerability has been identified in OpenBSD, which could be exploited by local attackers to gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "command_Expand_Interpret()" [ppp/command.c] function when processing an overly long and specially crafted command, which could be exploited by malicious users to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by sipherr.
ChangeLog
2008-03-10 : Initial release
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