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Calendar Grey May 20, 2007
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A routine severity alert for Gentoo pertaining to a PPTPD Denial of Service security flaw. Update advised.
A vulnerability has been reported in PPTPD which could lead to a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-18 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: PPTPD: Denial of Service attack Date: May 20, 2007 Bugs: #176936 ID: 200705-18

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been reported in PPTPD which could lead to a Denial of Service.
Background ========= PPTPD is a Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol Daemon for Linux.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dialup/pptpd < 1.3.4 >= 1.3.4
========== James Cameron from HP has reported a vulnerability in PPTPD caused by malformed GRE packets.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service on the PPTPD conne...

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