glsa-200705-18.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200705-18">
  <title>PPTPD: Denial of Service attack</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been reported in PPTPD which could lead to a Denial of
    Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pptpd</product>
  <announced>2007-05-20</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-05-20</revised>
  <bug>176936</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-dialup/pptpd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.3.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.3.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    PPTPD is a Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol Daemon for Linux.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    James Cameron from HP has reported a vulnerability in PPTPD caused by
    malformed GRE packets.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of
    Service on the PPTPD connection.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All PPTPD users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-dialup/pptpd-1.3.4"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0244">CVE-2007-0244</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-05-11T07:06:10Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-05-11T07:14:40Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-05-14T17:58:13Z">
    dizzutch
  </metadata>
</glsa>