USN-4451-2: ppp vulnerability

KENNETH

4년 ago

USN-4451-1 fixed a vulnerability in ppp. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Thomas Chauchefoin discovered that ppp incorrectly handled module loading.
A local attacker could use this issue to load arbitrary kernel modules and
possibly execute arbitrary code.
Source: USN-4451-2: ppp vulnerability