Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2014-3158 First vendor Publication 2014-11-15
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-11-07

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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."

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3158

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26520
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26520
Title: SUSE-SU-2014:1088-1 -- Security update for ppp
Description: This ppp update fixes a potential security issue that an unprivileged attacker could access privileged options: * integer overflow in option parsing (CVE-2014-3158, bnc#891489) Security Issues: * CVE-2014-3158 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3158>
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2014:1088-1
CVE-2014-3158
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Product(s): ppp
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28067
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28067
Title: DSA-3079-1 -- ppp security update
Description: A vulnerability was discovered in ppp, an implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol: an integer overflow in the routine responsible for parsing user-supplied options potentially allows a local attacker to gain root privileges.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3079-1
CVE-2014-3158
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): ppp
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28448
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28448
Title: USN-2429-1 -- ppp vulnerability
Description: It was discovered that ppp incorrectly handled certain options files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2429-1
CVE-2014-3158
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.10
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): ppp
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-04-22 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2015-111-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-135.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-74.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-19.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-02 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2429-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3079.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-545.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-12 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-178.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-04 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_ppp-140826.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-9401.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-9412.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0368.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136932....
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/7658e8257183f062dc01f87969c140707c7e...
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