CVE-2014-3158
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 3.5%EU EUVD
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."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.5% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-3176)
- Published
- November 15, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-3176 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- point-to-point protocol project / point-to-point protocol
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0368.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136932.html
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&m=140764978420764
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3079
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:135
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2429-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128748
- https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp/commit/7658e8257183f062dc01f87969c140707c7e52cb
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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