Executive Summary

Summary
Title PPP: Buffer overflow
Informations
Name GLSA-201701-50 First vendor Publication 2017-01-23
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-01-23
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A buffer overflow in PPP might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

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

Description

A buffer overflow was discovered in the rc_mksid function in plugins/radius/util.c in PPP when the PID for pppd is greater than
65535.

Impact

A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition.

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-r3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-3310 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3310

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-50

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201701-50.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3
Os 3
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-02-16 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-0473-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-16 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-0474-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-23 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-50.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-30 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-827.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-06 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2595-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-05 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-222.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-22 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2015-111-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-205.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3228.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-01-24 13:24:52
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-23 05:22:25
  • First insertion