Bug 1128748 (CVE-2014-3158)

Summary:	CVE-2014-3158 ppp: integer overflow in option parsing
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	fweimer, jsynacek, msekleta, thozza
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	ppp 2.4.7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-08-04 09:50:50 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1128749
Bug Blocks:	1128753

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-08-11 13:12:05 UTC

Upstream released ppp-2.4.7 which fixes a potential security vulnerability:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&m=140764978420764

There's not much technical details about this issue at this time.

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-08-11 13:12:25 UTC

Created ppp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1128749]

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2014-08-11 13:36:14 UTC

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp/commit/7658e8257183f062dc01f87969c140707c7e52cb

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-08-23 01:57:49 UTC

ppp-2.4.5-34.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-08-30 03:52:59 UTC

ppp-2.4.5-33.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-11-19 11:44:47 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

This issue affects the versions of ppp as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/clasification/.