PublicDateAtUSN: 2014-11-15
Candidate: CVE-2014-3158
PublicDate: 2014-11-15 21:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3158
 http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&m=140764978420764
 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136932.html
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2429-1
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."
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762789
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128748
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS: 

Patches_ppp:
 upstream: https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp/commit/7658e8257183f062dc01f87969c140707c7e52cb
upstream_ppp: released (2.4.6-3)
lucid_ppp: released (2.4.5~git20081126t100229-0ubuntu3.1)
precise_ppp: released (2.4.5-5ubuntu1.1)
trusty_ppp: released (2.4.5-5.1ubuntu2.1)
trusty/esm_ppp: released (2.4.5-5.1ubuntu2.1)
utopic_ppp: released (2.4.5-5.1ubuntu3.1)
devel_ppp: released (2.4.5-5.1ubuntu5)