What is GHSA-92ww-f582-cp72?

GHSA-92ww-f582-cp72 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. LcpDecodeConfig() did not validate the length of received endpoint discriminator options against...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-92ww-f582-cp72 cover?

GHSA-92ww-f582-cp72 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-58096. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-92ww-f582-cp72?

GHSA-92ww-f582-cp72 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-92ww-f582-cp72CriticalCVSS 9.8

LcpDecodeConfig() did not validate the length of received endpoint discriminator options against...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 26, 2026

Last Modified

August 26, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-58096 →

📋 Description

LcpDecodeConfig() did not validate the length of received endpoint discriminator options against the minimum required by RFC 1717. Undersized options would trigger an out-of-bounds write.

A malicious PPP peer can exploit CVE-2026-58095 and CVE-2026-58096 to crash ppp(8) or potentially execute arbitrary code as root.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58096
https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:60.ppp.asc
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92ww-f582-cp72