A critical Buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the pppD ( Point to Point Protocol Daemon) Let remote attackers exploit the Linux systems remotely and gain the root-level privileges. pppD ( Point to Point Protocol Daemon) often used to manage the network connections in Unix based operating systems, also it used to manage broadband connections such as DSL, if (PPPoE) or (PPPoA) is used.

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