CVE-2004-0165 (GCVE-0-2004-0165)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:10
VLAI
Summary
Format string vulnerability in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon (pppd) 2.4.0 for Mac OS X 10.3.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary pppd process data, including PAP or CHAP authentication credentials, to gain privileges.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/841742 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.osvdb.org/6822 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9730 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2004/a… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_ATSTAKE
Date Public
2004-02-23 00:00
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  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.