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+<?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 "&gt;=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>