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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703228
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3228-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ppp' package(s) announced via the DSA-3228-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ppp' package(s) announced via the DSA-3228-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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.

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.

We recommend that you upgrade your ppp packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'ppp' package(s) on Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.3

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-3310
BugTraq ID: 74163
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74163
Debian Security Information: DSA-3228 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3228
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-50
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:222
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:2121 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00147.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2595-1
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG

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