CVE-2014-3158

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-3158
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerChrome
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-11-15 21:59:00 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in the getword function in options.c in pppd in Paul's PPP Package (ppp) before 2.4.7 allows attackers to "access privileged options" via a long word in an options file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow that "[corrupts] security-relevant variables."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Point-to-point Protocol Project Point-to-point Protocol All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: ppp-2.4.5-34.fc20 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Oracle Solaris Third Party Bulletin - April 2015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
'ppp-2.4.7 released' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
USN-2429-1: ppp vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Bug 1128748 – CVE-2014-3158 ppp: integer overflow in option parsing af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3079-1 ppp af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2014-0368 - Updated ppp packages fix a security vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 advisories.mageia.org
pppd: Eliminate potential integer overflow in option parsing · paulusmack/ppp@7658e82 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:135 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
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