UBUNTU-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 privileged options" via a long word in an options file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow that "corrupts security-relevant variables."...

[SECURITY] [DLA 74-1] ppp security update

Package : ppp Version : 2.4.5-4+deb6u1 CVE ID : CVE-2014-3158 Debian Bug : http://bugs.debian.org/762789 This updates fixes a potential integer overflow in option parsing. A user in the group "dip" could provide a specially crafted configuration file of more than 2G and generate an integer...

DLA-74-1 ppp - security update

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NetHogs - Small 'net top' tool

NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process. NetHogs does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. If there's suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and...

openSUSE Security Update : ppp (openSUSE-SU-2014:1135-1)

ppp was updated to fix an integer overflow in option parsing. CVE-2014-3158, bnc891489. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2014-545. The text description of this plugin i...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ppp (MDVSA-2014:178)

Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability : A vulnerability in ppp before 2.4.7 may enable an unprivileged attacker to access privileged options CVE-2014-3158. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

[ MDVSA-2014:178 ] ppp

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:178 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : ppp Date : September 5, 2014 Affected: Business Server 1.0 Problem Description: Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability: A vulnerability in...

Updated ppp packages fix a security vulnerability

Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability: A vulnerability in ppp before 2.4.7 may enable an unprivileged attacker to access privileged options CVE-2014-3158...

MGASA-2014-0368 Updated ppp packages fix a security vulnerability

Updated ppp packages fix security vulnerability: A vulnerability in ppp before 2.4.7 may enable an unprivileged attacker to access privileged options CVE-2014-3158...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : ppp (SAT Patch Number 9648)

This ppp update fixes a potential security issue that an unprivileged attacker could access privileged options : - integer overflow in option parsing CVE-2014-3158, bnc891489 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Fedora Update for ppp FEDORA-2014-9401

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: ppp-2.4.5-33.fc19

The ppp package contains the PPP Point-to-Point Protocol daemon and documentation for PPP support. The PPP protocol provides a method for transmitting datagrams over serial point-to-point links. PPP is usually used to dial in to an ISP Internet Service Provider or other organization over a modem...

Fedora 19 : ppp-2.4.5-33.fc19 (2014-9401)

Security fix for CVE-2014-3158 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: ppp-2.4.5-34.fc20

The ppp package contains the PPP Point-to-Point Protocol daemon and documentation for PPP support. The PPP protocol provides a method for transmitting datagrams over serial point-to-point links. PPP is usually used to dial in to an ISP Internet Service Provider or other organization over a modem...

Fedora Update for ppp FEDORA-2014-9412

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora 20 : ppp-2.4.5-34.fc20 (2014-9412)

Security fix for CVE-2014-3158 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2014:0923-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0923 Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

[oss-security] CVE-2014-4943: Linux privilege escalation in ppp over l2tp sockets

CVE-2014-4943 is a flaw in the Linux kernel allowing an unprivileged user to escalate to kernel privilege when CONFIGPPPOL2TP is enabled. If built as a module, a work-around to limit this to just the root user would be to add this to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias pppox-proto-1 off blacklist l2tpppp...