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A ppp security update has been released for Debian 6 LTS




Package : ppp
Version : 2.4.5-4+deb6u1
CVE ID : CVE-2014-3158
Debian Bug : http://bugs.debian.org/762789

This updates fixes a potential integer overflow in option parsing.

A user in the group "dip" could provide a specially crafted
configuration file of more than 2G and generate an integer overflow.
This may enable an attacker to overwrite the heap and thereby corrupt
security-relevant variables.

See details in the upstream commit:
https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp/commit/7658e8257183f062dc01f87969c140707c7e52cb

PS: This upload has been prepared by Andrew Bartlett
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