Debian 4.0 DSA 1288-1 Critical: pptpd Denial Of Service Attack
debian
May 8, 2007
It was discovered that the PoPToP Point to Point Tunneling Server
contains a programming error, which allows the tear-down of a PPTP
connection through a malformed GRE packet, re...
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.0-2etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your pptpd packages.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 599 0363621f77d0364e4f58bd834d33b4ad
Size/MD5 checksum: 11297 419d853dca942c8a0067f498105cb23e
Size/MD5 checksum: 204099 75d494e881f7027f4e60b114163f6b67
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 21554 5da...
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