Out-of-Bounds Affecting paulusmack/ppp package, versions [0,2.4.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.97% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PAULUSMACKPPP-2366337
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-3158  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade paulusmack/ppp to version 2.4.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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."

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