Bug 2538346 (CVE-2026-75883) - CVE-2026-75883 pppd: pppd: Buffer overflow in PEAP response handling leads to data corruption or denial of service.
Summary: CVE-2026-75883 pppd: pppd: Buffer overflow in PEAP response handling leads to...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-75883
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-22 18:12 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-04 11:12 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-22 18:12:20 UTC
The code in pppd that formats a response to a PEAP Request packet in peap_response() copies an entire TLS record of up to 16384 bytes into the fixed global buffer outpacket_buf
 without checking the available space and without implementing outgoing 
PEAP fragmentation. Thus a pppd process connecting to a server which 
requests PEAP authentication can be induced to corrupt global static 
data following the outpacket_buf array, most likely causing incorrect behavior or a crash.


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