CVE-2014-3158

Summary

CVECVE-2014-3158
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-11-15 21:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:19:00 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

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 1128748 – CVE-2014-3158 ppp: integer overflow in option parsing bugzilla.redhat.com
'ppp-2.4.7 released' - MARC MLIST marc.info
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2014-0368 - Updated ppp packages fix a security vulnerability advisories.mageia.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: ppp-2.4.5-34.fc20 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:135 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Oracle Solaris Third Party Bulletin - April 2015 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3079-1 ppp www.debian.org
pppd: Eliminate potential integer overflow in option parsing · paulusmack/ppp@7658e82 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
USN-2429-1: ppp vulnerability | Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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