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1.6 KiB
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201412-19">
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<title>PPP: Information disclosure</title>
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<synopsis>An integer overflow in PPP might allow local attackers to obtain
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sensitive information.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">ppp</product>
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<announced>2014-12-13</announced>
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<revised count="2">2014-12-13</revised>
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<bug>519650</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="net-dialup/ppp" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">2.4.7 </unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">2.4.7 </vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>PPP is a Unix implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>Integer overflow is discovered in the getword function in options.c in
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PPP
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>A local attacker could execute process with extremely long options list,
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possibly obtaining sensitive information.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All PPP users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dialup/ppp-2.4.7"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3158">CVE-2014-3158</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-08-21T10:14:30Z">K_F</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-13T18:01:42Z">
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pinkbyte
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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