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CVE-2014-3158

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3158 is an integer overflow vulnerability in the getword function of Paul's PPP Package (pppd) versions prior to 2.4.7. This flaw allows attackers to corrupt security-relevant variables via a heap-based buffer overflow triggered by a long word in an options file, potentially leading to access to privileged options. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:point-to-point_protocol_project:point-to-point_protocol:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0350 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ppp
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ppp
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ppp

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-3158Moderate

ppp: integer overflow in option parsing

Aug 10, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0368.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136932.html
marc.info
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
github.com / paulusmack/ppp/commit/7658e8257183f062dc01f87969c140707c7e52cb
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3079
mandriva.com / security/advisories
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2429-1