Debian DLA-205-1 : ppp security update
medium Nessus Plugin ID 82863
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
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.NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Upgrade the affected ppp, ppp-dev, and ppp-udeb packages.See Also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/04/msg00018.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 82863
File Name: debian_DLA-205.nasl
Version: 1.7
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 4/20/2015
Updated: 1/11/2021
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp-udeb, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/19/2015
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2015-3310
BID: 74163