Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-3158

Title: Point-To-Point Protocol Project Point-To-Point Protocol Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-3158.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Nov 15, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.50%

Vulnerability Summary

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."

Impacted Vendors

point-to-point_protocol_project 1

Reference Links

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 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-3158 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 15, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.