CVE-2003-0213

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 70.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-05-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ctrlpacket.c in PoPToP PPTP server before 1.1.4-b3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a length field of 0 or 1, which causes a negative value to be fed into a read operation, leading to a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Poptop Pptp Server: 1.0.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.3_2002-10-09, 1.1.4b1, 1.1.4b2

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105068728421160&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105154539727967&w=2
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=138437
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-295
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/673993
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_029.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/317995
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/319428
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7316
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105068728421160&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105154539727967&w=2
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=138437

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