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A vulnerability has been discovered in Poptop pptpd-1.1.4 b3 and earlier. The problem occurs due to insufficient bounds checking before calling the sprintf() function. As a result, it may be possible for a malicious attacker to supply excessive data to the program which may trigger memory corruption. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to execution arbitrary commands with the privileges of Poptop, typically root.

A vulnerability has been discovered in Poptop pptpd-1.1.4 b3 and earlier. The problem occurs due to insufficient bounds checking before calling the sprintf() function. As a result, it may be possible for a malicious attacker to supply excessive data to the program which may trigger memory corruption. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to execution arbitrary commands with the privileges of Poptop, typically root.