[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: ppp-2.4.5-33.fc19
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-9401
2014-08-15 01:48:37
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Name : ppp
Product : Fedora 19
Version : 2.4.5
Release : 33.fc19
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(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.5-33
- Fix for CVE-2014-3158
* Thu Aug 1 2013 Michal Sekletar <msekleta(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.5-32
- fix post installation scriptlet
* Tue Jul 30 2013 Michal Sekletar <msekleta(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.5-31
- don't ship /var/lock/ppp in rpm payload and create it in %post instead
- fix installation of tmpfiles.d configuration
- enable hardened build
- fix bogus dates in changelog
- compile all binaries with hardening flags
* Thu Jul 4 2013 Michal Sekletar <msekleta(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.5-30
- fix possible NULL pointer dereferencing
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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/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
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