*BSD user-ppp local root (when conditions permit)

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

Dan, good day.

Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:48:17AM +0100, Dan Lukes wrote:
> Eygene Ryabinkin napsal/wrote, On 03/02/08 00:06:
>>> 1. Run ppp
>>> 2. type the following (or atleat some variation of)
> ...
> 
>> Yes, good catch: looks like stack-based buffer overflow
> 
>> Could you please test the following rough patch
> 
> It seems you are going to cut of part of line silently.
> 
> IMHO - the line shall be rejected as invalid at all or warning needs to be 
> issued at least ...

Yes, I will add the neccessary statements.  But first I want to
verify that the exploitation path is not available anymore.

> Someone may create so long line (unintentionally), it will not work for him 
> with no hint why - it's not so polite ...

May be the buffer should even be dynamically resized -- will look
into it.

Thanks!
-- 
Eygene