Vulnerability CVE-2014-3158
Published: 2014-11-15   Modified: 2014-11-16

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."

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Samba -> PPP 

 References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0368.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136932.html
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&m=140764978420764
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3079
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:135
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2429-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128748
https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp/commit/7658e8257183f062dc01f87969c140707c7e52cb
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