Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.1.2.2014.74
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-74-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ppp' package(s) announced via the DLA-74-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ppp' package(s) announced via the DLA-74-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: This updates fixes a potential integer overflow in option parsing. A user in the group dip could provide a specially crafted configuration file of more than 2G and generate an integer overflow. This may enable an attacker to overwrite the heap and thereby corrupt security-relevant variables. See details in the upstream commit: [link moved to references] For Debian 6 Squeeze, these issues have been fixed in ppp version 2.4.5-4+deb6u1 Affected Software/OS: 'ppp' package(s) on Debian 6. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-3158 Debian Security Information: DSA-3079 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3079 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136932.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:135 http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&m=140764978420764 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2429-1
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