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VPR Score: 5.9
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
Description
Marcus Meissner discovered that the winbind plugin in pppd does not check whether a setuid() call has been successful when trying to drop privileges, which may fail with some PAM configurations.
Solution
Upgrade the ppp package.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1.