<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200705-18"> <title>PPTPD: Denial of Service attack</title> <synopsis> A vulnerability has been reported in PPTPD which could lead to a Denial of Service. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">pptpd</product> <announced>2007-05-20</announced> <revised count="01">2007-05-20</revised> <bug>176936</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-dialup/pptpd" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.3.4</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.3.4</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> PPTPD is a Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol Daemon for Linux. </p> </background> <description> <p> James Cameron from HP has reported a vulnerability in PPTPD caused by malformed GRE packets. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service on the PPTPD connection. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All PPTPD users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dialup/pptpd-1.3.4"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0244">CVE-2007-0244</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-05-11T07:06:10Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-05-11T07:14:40Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-05-14T17:58:13Z"> dizzutch </metadata> </glsa>