Executive Summary

Summary
Title PPP: Information disclosure
Informations
Name GLSA-201412-19 First vendor Publication 2014-12-13
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-12-13
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

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

Synopsis

An integer overflow in PPP might allow local attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Background

PPP is a Unix implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol.

Description

Integer overflow is discovered in the getword function in options.c in PPP.

Impact

A local attacker could execute process with extremely long options list, possibly obtaining sensitive information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All PPP users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dialup/ppp-2.4.7"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-3158 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3158

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-19.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-19.xml

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

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-12-16 13:25:45
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-13 21:22:16
  • First insertion