SUSE-SR:2007:010:vuln2: pptpd remote denial of service
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
05/11/2007
07/25/2018
05/29/2007
11/18/2015
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.
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