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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58586
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1288-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'pptpd' package(s) announced via the DSA-1288-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'pptpd' package(s) announced via the DSA-1288-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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, resulting in denial of service.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.0-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pptpd packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'pptpd' package(s) on Debian 4.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-0244
BugTraq ID: 23886
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23886
Debian Security Information: DSA-1288 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1288
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-18.xml
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018064
http://secunia.com/advisories/25220
http://secunia.com/advisories/25255
http://secunia.com/advisories/26987
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:010 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_10_sr.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:019 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-459-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-459-2
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1743
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