Summary
The remote host is missing an update to rp-pppoe, pppoe announced via advisory DSA 557-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20557-1
Insight
Max Vozeler discovered a vulnerability in pppoe, the PPP over Ethernet driver from Roaring Penguin. When the program is running setuid root (which is not the case in a default Debian installation), an attacker could overwrite any file on the file system.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3-1.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your pppoe package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2004-0564 -
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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