gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201412-19.xml

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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>