[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: ppp-2.4.7-34.fc30
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-571091c70b
2020-03-08 00:08:13.864810
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Name : ppp
Product : Fedora 30
Version : 2.4.7
Release : 34.fc30
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:
This is an update fixing CVE-2020-8597.
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Feb 21 2020 Jaroslav ��karvada <jskarvad(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.7-34
- Fixed buffer overflow in the eap_request and eap_response functions
Resolves: CVE-2020-8597
* Thu Jan 30 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.4.7-33
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Jul 26 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.4.7-32
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1800727 - CVE-2020-8597 ppp: Buffer overflow in the eap_request and
eap_response functions in eap.c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1800727
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