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VPR Score: 3.4
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related 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.
Solution
Upgrade the ppp packages.
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.