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Re: proposed fix for ppp CVE-2014-3158



On Oct 16, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet+debian@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

> I've prepared a a fix for CVE-2014-3158, an integer overflow potentially
> permitting a user in the dip group to abuse the privileges of the setuid
> root pppd binary by supplying a very, very long options line in
> ~/.ppprc.
Is this actually known to be exploitable?
If you believe that it is worth fixing then your changes look fine to 
me.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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