ppp

Description:Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
Homepage:https://ppp.samba.org/
Location:Portage
Legend:
  • + - stable
  • ~ - unstable
  • M - hardmask
alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86
2.5.0-r5 diff ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - ~ ~ ~ ~ - ~ ~
2.5.0-r4 diff ~ + + ~ ~ - ~ ~ + ~ - ~ +
2.5.0-r3 diff ~ + + ~ ~ - ~ + + ~ - + +
2.5.0-r2 diff ~ + + ~ ~ - ~ + + ~ - ~ +
2.4.9-r9 ~ + + ~ ~ - ~ + + ~ - + +

USE flags

  • activefilter - Enables active filter support
  • atm - Enable Asynchronous Transfer Mode protocol support
  • dhcp - Installs PPP DHCP client plugin for IP address allocation by a DHCP server (see http://www.netservers.co.uk/gpl/)
  • eap-tls - Enables support for Extensible Authentication Protocol and Transport Level Security (see http://www.nikhef.nl/~janjust/ppp/index.html)
  • gtk - Installs GTK+ password prompting program that can be used by passprompt.so PPP plugin for reading the password from a X11 input terminal
  • ipv6 - Add support for IP version 6
  • pam - Add support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip
  • radius - Enables RADIUS support
  • selinux - !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
  • systemd - Enable use of systemd-specific libraries and features like socket activation or session tracking

Security Advisory

Date Severity Title
over 4 years high PPP: Buffer overflow
almost 8 years normal PPP: Buffer overflow
almost 10 years normal PPP: Information disclosure

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