Debian 4.0 DSA-1288-2: PPTP Server Denial Of Service Issue
debian
September 2, 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...
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Summary
The oldstable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.0-2etch2.
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 9098a1a6ebac37015c1159a2c6a21655
Size/MD5 checksum: 11339 495273aeca7469ef97b157af54b8b89e
Size/MD5 checksum: 204099 75d494e881f7027f4e60b114163f6...
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