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CVE-2014-3158

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-11-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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."

Affected products

• Point-To-Point Protocol Project Point-To-Point Protocol: through 2.4.6

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
• 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

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