[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: ppp-2.4.5-34.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-9412
2014-08-15 01:49:01
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Name        : ppp
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.4.5
Release     : 34.fc20
URL         : http://www.samba.org/ppp
Summary     : The Point-to-Point Protocol daemon
Description :
The ppp package contains the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) daemon and
documentation for PPP support. The PPP protocol provides a method for
transmitting datagrams over serial point-to-point links. PPP is
usually used to dial in to an ISP (Internet Service Provider) or other
organization over a modem and phone line.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2014-3158
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Aug 12 2014 Michal Sekletar <msekleta at redhat.com> - 2.4.5-34
- Fix for CVE-2014-3158
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1128748 - CVE-2014-3158 ppp: integer overflow in option parsing
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128748
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update ppp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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