Critical RHSA-2020:0634 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: ppp security update

Published Sep 16, 2024 · Updated Dec 4, 2025

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 3

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8.0 E4S rhel_e4s:8.0::baseos	ppp	0:2.4.7-26.el8_0
Red Hat · RHEL 8.0 E4S rhel_e4s:8.0::baseos	ppp-debuginfo	0:2.4.7-26.el8_0
Red Hat · RHEL 8.0 E4S rhel_e4s:8.0::baseos	ppp-debugsource	0:2.4.7-26.el8_0

Vulnerabilities 1

Critical 9.8

CVE-2020-8597 Public exploit EPSS 20%

eap.c in pppd in ppp 2.4.2 through 2.4.8 has an rhostname buffer overflow in the eap_request and eap_response functions.

ppp lwip lwip ppp Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

Feb 3, 2020

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1800727
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2020/rhsa-2020_0634.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8597
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8597
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8597