Debian DLA-74-1 : ppp security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 82219

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

This updates fixes a potential integer overflow in option parsing.

A user in the group 'dip' could provide a specially crafted configuration file of more than 2G and generate an integer overflow.
This may enable an attacker to overwrite the heap and thereby corrupt security-relevant variables.

See details in the upstream commit:
https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp/commit/7658e8257183f062dc01f87969c14 0707c7e52cb

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected ppp, ppp-dev, and ppp-udeb packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82219

File Name: debian_DLA-74.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3158

BID: 69399

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