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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3228-1 ppp -- security update

Date Reported:

16 Apr 2015

Affected Packages:

ppp

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 782450.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-3310.

More information:

Emanuele Rocca discovered that ppp, a daemon implementing the Point-to-Point Protocol, was subject to a buffer overflow when communicating with a RADIUS server. This would allow unauthenticated users to cause a denial-of-service by crashing the daemon.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.5-5.1+deb7u2.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.6-3.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ppp packages.