On March 9, 2020 4:23:10 AM PDT, Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]> wrote:
>I don't know if FreeBSD is vulnerable or not. There are main Linux 
>distros and NetBSD listed in the article.
>
>https://thehackernews.com/2020/03/ppp-daemon-vulnerability.html
>
>The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-8597 [1] with CVSS Score 9.8,
>can 
>be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute arbitrary
>
>code on affected systems and take full control over them.
>
>[1] https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/782301/
>
>Kind regards
>Miroslav Lachman
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Probably not. Ours is a different codebase from NetBSD. I haven't looked at 
what Red Hat has, no comment about theirs. However it would be prudent to 
verify our pppd isn't also vulnerable.



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