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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201412-19">
<title>PPP: Information disclosure</title>
<synopsis>An integer overflow in PPP might allow local attackers to obtain
sensitive information.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">ppp</product>
<announced>2014-12-13</announced>
<revised count="2">2014-12-13</revised>
<bug>519650</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-dialup/ppp" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.4.7 </unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.4.7 </vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>PPP is a Unix implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Integer overflow is discovered in the getword function in options.c in
PPP
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local attacker could execute process with extremely long options list,
possibly obtaining sensitive information.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All PPP users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-dialup/ppp-2.4.7"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3158">CVE-2014-3158</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-08-21T10:14:30Z">K_F</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-13T18:01:42Z">
pinkbyte
</metadata>
</glsa>