CVE-2006-4304 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the sppp driver affecting FreeBSD versions 4.11 through 6.1, NetBSD 2.0 through 4.0 beta, and OpenBSD 3.8 and 3.9. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (system panic), disclose sensitive information, and potentially execute arbitrary code by sending malformed Link Control Protocol (LCP) packets. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.