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GLSA-200705-18 : PPTPD: Denial of Service attack

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25263

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200705-18 (PPTPD: Denial of Service attack)

 James Cameron from HP has reported a vulnerability in PPTPD caused by malformed GRE packets.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service on the PPTPD connection.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All PPTPD users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-dialup/pptpd-1.3.4'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200705-18

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25263

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200705-18.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 5/20/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pptpd, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/20/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0244

GLSA: 200705-18