CVE-2014-3158

Description

Integer 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."

References

https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp/commit/7658e8257183f062dc01f87969c140707c7e52cb

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128748

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2429-1

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:135

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3079

http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&m=140764978420764

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136932.html

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0368.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3