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Gentoo: 202312-02 Critical Severity: HTTP Server Exploit Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 1, 2004
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To fix the denial of service vulnerability in the Point-to-Point Protocol per Gentoo advisory GLSA 200411-01, users should follow several steps outlined here.
pppd contains a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to crash the server.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ppp: Remote denial of service vulnerability Date: November 01, 2004 Bugs: #69152 ID: 200411-01

Synopsis ======= pppd contains a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to crash the server.
Background ========= ppp is a Unix implementation of the Point-to-Point Protocol.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dialup/ppp < 2.4.2-r7 >= 2.4.2-r7
========== The pppd server improperly verifies header fields, making it vulnerable to denial of service attacks.
Impact ===== An attacker can cause the pppd server to access memory that it isn't allowed...

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