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CVE-2014-3158
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…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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."
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- USN-2429-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [linux-ppp] 20140810 ppp-2.4.7 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- MDVSA-2015:135 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128748 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-9412 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-3079 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0368.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp/commit/7658e8257183f062dc01f87969c140707c7e52cb (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-3176 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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