Fedora 19 Update: ppp-2.4.5-30.fc19
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-12387
2013-07-05 23:15:14
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Name : ppp
Product : Fedora 19
Version : 2.4.5
Release : 30.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:
Fix possible bad memory handling, which would cause crash of pppd.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Jul 4 2013 Michal Sekletar <msekleta at redhat.com> - 2.4.5-30
- fix possible NULL pointer dereferencing
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #815617 - PATCH: properly deal with crypt() returning NULL
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815617
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update ppp' at the command line.
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