On 2008/01/28 20:05, Richard P. Koett wrote:
> 
> The machine is running poptop-1.1.4.b4p1. Someone did an audit and declared
> "PoPToP servers prior to version 1.1.4-bs are vulnerable to a buffer
> overflow".

Nice of PoPToP to warn about this on their web page (not...)

> I notice that even the current version of OpenBSD has a package for
> poptop-1.1.4.b4p1, so I find it hard to believe that this version contains a
> known buffer overflow.

propolice might catch it (in which case poptop will stop running).
the exploit code is at http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105068728421160&w=2
if you want to try it to find out whether or not you get a shell.

the -current version of OpenBSD has PoPToP 1.3.0 in ports and packages.
the last release does have the older version.

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