Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1288-1 pptpd -- programming error

Date Reported:
08 May 2007
Affected Packages:
pptpd
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-0244.
More information:

It was discovered that the PoPToP Point to Point Tunneling Server contains a programming error, which allows the tear-down of a PPTP connection through a malformed GRE packet, resulting in denial of service.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.0-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pptpd packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/bcrelay_1.3.0-2etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/bcrelay_1.3.0-2etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/bcrelay_1.3.0-2etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/bcrelay_1.3.0-2etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/bcrelay_1.3.0-2etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/bcrelay_1.3.0-2etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1_ia64.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/bcrelay_1.3.0-2etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/bcrelay_1.3.0-2etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/bcrelay_1.3.0-2etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/bcrelay_1.3.0-2etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/bcrelay_1.3.0-2etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pptpd/pptpd_1.3.0-2etch1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.