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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-0244: PPTPD: Denial of Service attack

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-0244: PPTPD: Denial of Service attack

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/11/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

pptpgre.c in PoPToP Point to Point Tunneling Server (pptpd) before 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (PPTP connection tear-down) via (1) GRE packets with out-of-order sequence numbers or (2) certain GRE packets that are processed using a wrong pointer and improperly dequeued.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-dialup-pptpd

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