Bug 1128748 (CVE-2014-3158) - CVE-2014-3158 ppp: integer overflow in option parsing
Summary: CVE-2014-3158 ppp: integer overflow in option parsing
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2014-3158
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1128749
Blocks: 1128753
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Reported: 2014-08-11 13:12 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:18 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ppp 2.4.7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-08-04 09:50:50 UTC
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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 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/.


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