[ol6_latest] ppp-2.4.5-11.el6_10.x86_64

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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• Tue Feb 25 2020 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad@redhat.com> - 2.4.5-11

  - Fixed buffer overflow in the eap_request and eap_response functions
    Resolves: CVE-2020-8597

• Tue Mar 03 2015 Michal Sekletar <msekleta@redhat.com> - 2.4.5-10

  - apply l2tp patch

• Tue Mar 03 2015 Michal Sekletar <msekleta@redhat.com> - 2.4.5-9

  - fix segfault when using pppol2tp and dump option is given (#1197792)

• Mon Feb 09 2015 Michal Sekletar <msekleta@redhat.com> - 2.4.5-8

  - prevent running into issues caused by undefined behavior (pointers of incompatible types aliasing the same object)

• Wed Feb 04 2015 Michal Sekletar <msekleta@redhat.com> - 2.4.5-7

  - ignore unrecognised radiusclient configuration directives (#906912)
  - add missing l2tp support (#815128)

• Tue Feb 03 2015 Michal Sekletar <msekleta@redhat.com> - 2.4.5-6

  - don't require logrotate (#922769)
  - move pppd database to /var/run/ppp to prevent SELinux AVCs (#968398)

• Fri Mar 05 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> 2.4.5-5

  - Resolves: #563207 - extended about removing duplicities in patches

• Tue Feb 16 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> 2.4.5-4

  - Resolves: #563207 - no_strip patch modifies backup file created by previous patch

• Mon Jan 11 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> 2.4.5-3

  - Related: rhbz#543948
  - fixed rpmlint E+W

• Fri Dec 11 2009 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> 2.4.5-2

  - fixed one line in ppp...local.patch

• Fri Dec 11 2009 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> 2.4.5-1

  - re-base to latest upstream

• Wed Sep 16 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 2.4.4-13

  - use password-auth common PAM configuration instead of system-auth

• Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.4.4-12

  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

• Fri Mar 06 2009 - Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> 2.4.4-11

  - fixed #488764 - package upgrade should not replace configuration files

• Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.4.4-10

  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

• Thu Dec 11 2008 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> 2.4.4.-9

  - fixed #467004 PPP sometimes gets incorrect DNS servers for mobile broadband connections

• Thu Aug 28 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 2.4.4-8

  - fix license tag

• Tue May 13 2008 Martin Nagy <mnagy@redhat.com> 2.4.4-7

  - add new speeds, patch by Jason Vas Dias (#446132)

• Thu Mar 06 2008 Martin Nagy <mnagy@redhat.com> 2.4.4-6

  - call closelog earlier (#222295)
  - fix ChapMS2 (#217076)
  - moving header files to new -devel package (#203542)

• Mon Mar 03 2008 Martin Nagy <mnagy@redhat.com> 2.4.4-5

  - put logs into /var/log/ppp (#118837)

• Mon Feb 11 2008 Martin Nagy <mnagy@redhat.com> 2.4.4-4

  - rebuild for gcc-4.3

• Fri Nov 09 2007 Martin Nagy <mnagy@redhat.com> 2.4.4-3

  - removed undesired files from the package (#241753)

• Fri Dec 01 2006 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.4-2

  - fixed build requirement for libpcap (#217661)

• Wed Jul 19 2006 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.4-1

  - new version 2.4.4 with lots of fixes
  - fixed reesolv.conf docs (#16507) Thanks to Matt Domsch for the initial patch 
  - enabled CBCP (#199278)

• Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.4.3-6.2.2

  - rebuild

• Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.4.3-6.2.1

  - bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)

• Tue Feb 07 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.4.3-6.2

  - rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes

• Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Sat Nov 12 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com>

  - rebuild

• Fri Nov 04 2005 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com> 2.4.3-5

  - Implement ipv6cp-accept-remote option

• Fri Oct 07 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 2.4.3-4

  - use include instead of pam_stack in pam config

• Sun Jul 31 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com>

  - rebuild for libpcap of the day

• Tue Jul 19 2005 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.3-2.1

  - additional patch for the scripts, thanks to Sammy (#163621)

• Tue Jul 19 2005 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.3-2

  - dropped all executable bits in scripts directory to prevent rpm requiring
    programs used in there

• Mon Jul 18 2005 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.3-1

  - new version 2.4.3
  - updated patches: make, lib64, dontwriteetc, fix, fix64, no_strip, radiusplugin
  - dropped patches: bpf, signal, pcap, pppoatm, pkgcheck

• Tue Nov 02 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.2-7

  - fixed out of bounds memory access, possible DOS

• Thu Oct 07 2004 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com> 2.4.2-6.3

  - Fix use of 'demand' without explicit MTU/MRU with pppoatm

• Tue Oct 05 2004 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com> 2.4.2-6.2

  - Link pppoatm plugin against libresolv.
  - Revert to linux-atm headers without the workaround for #127098

• Mon Oct 04 2004 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com> 2.4.2-6.1

  - Include atmsap.h for pppoatm plugin.

• Mon Oct 04 2004 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com> 2.4.2-6

  - Add pppoatm plugin (#131555)

• Thu Sep 16 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.2-5.1

  - fixed subscript out of range (#132677)

• Wed Sep 15 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.2-5

  - example scripts are using change_resolv_conf to modify /etc/resolv.conf (#132482)
  - require new libpcap library (>= 0.8.3-6) with a fix for inbound/outbound filter processing
  - not using internal libpcap structures anymore, fixes inbound/outbound filter processing (#128053)

• Fri Aug 06 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.2-4

  - fixed signal handling (#29171)

• Mon Jun 21 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.2-3.1

  - fixed compiler warnings
  - fixed 64bit problem with ms-chap (#125501)
  - enabled pie again

• Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Mon May 24 2004 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com> 2.4.2-2.3

  - Enable IPv6 support. Disable PIE to avoid bogus Provides:

• Fri May 14 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.2-2.2

  - compiled pppd and chat PIE

• Thu May 13 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 2.4.2-2.1

  - added 'missingok' to ppp.logrotate (#122911)

• Fri May 07 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@redhat.com> 2.4.2-2

  - don't write to /etc (#118837)

• Wed Mar 10 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.4.2-1

  - update to 2.4.2

• Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Fri Sep 05 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.4.1-15

  - rebuild

• Fri Sep 05 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.4.1-14

  - apply the patch from -11

• Wed Jun 04 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Tue Jun 03 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.4.1-12

  - rebuild

• Tue Jun 03 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.4.1-11

  - check for libcrypt in the right directory at compile-time

• Wed Jan 22 2003 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Thu Dec 12 2002 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> 2.4.1-9

  - Fix build failure by rebuilding

• Tue Nov 19 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.4.1-8

  - rebuild
  - set x86_64 to use varargs the way s390 does

• Mon Jul 22 2002 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>

  - add patch:

• Fri Jun 21 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>

  - automated rebuild

• Thu Jun 06 2002 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com>

  - Fixed varargs problem for s390/s390x.

• Sun May 26 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>

  - automated rebuild

• Fri May 17 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.4.1-4

  - rebuild in new environment

• Wed Feb 27 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.4.1-3

  - revert cbcp patch, it's wrong (#55367)

• Thu Aug 09 2001 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.4.1-2

  - add buildprereq on pam-devel (#49559)
  - add patch to respond to CBCP LCP requests (#15738)
  - enable cbcp support at build-time
  - change the Copyright: tag to a License: tag

• Wed May 23 2001 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.4.1-1

  - update to 2.4.1

• Fri Dec 01 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - rebuild in new environment

• Thu Nov 09 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - update to 2.4.0

• Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>

  - automatic rebuild

• Mon Jun 05 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - move man pages to _mandir path

• Thu Jun 01 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - change perms using defattr
  - modify PAM setup to use system-auth

• Sun Mar 26 2000 Florian La Roche <Florian.La Roche@redhat.com>

  - change to root:root perms

• Mon Mar 06 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - reaper bugs verified as fixed
  - check pam_open_session result code (bug #9966)

• Mon Feb 07 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - take a shot at the wrong reaper bugs (#8153, #5290)

• Thu Feb 03 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - free ride through the build system (release 2)

• Tue Jan 18 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - Update to 2.3.11

• Sat Nov 06 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

  - Better fix for both problems

• Fri Nov 05 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

  - fix for double-dial problem
  - fix for requiring a controlling terminal problem

• Sun Sep 19 1999 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>

  - 2.3.10 bugfix release

• Fri Aug 13 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

  - New version 2.3.9 required for kernel 2.3.13 and will be required
    for new initscripts.  auth patch removed; 2.3.9 does the same thing
    more readably than the previous patch.

• Thu Jun 24 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - add pppdump

• Fri Apr 09 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - force pppd use the glibc's logwtmp instead of implementing its own

• Thu Apr 01 1999 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>

  - version 2.3.7 bugfix release

• Tue Mar 23 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - version 2.3.6

• Mon Mar 22 1999 Michael Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

  - auth patch

• Sun Mar 21 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 3)

• Thu Jan 07 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - build for glibc 2.1

• Fri Jun 05 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.3.5.

• Tue May 19 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>

  - translations modified for de

• Fri May 08 1998 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz>

  - make it run with kernels 2.1.100 and above.

• Fri Apr 24 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>

  - translations modified for de, fr, tr

• Wed Mar 18 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - requires glibc 2.0.6 or later

• Wed Mar 18 1998 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

  - updated PAM patch to not turn off wtmp/utmp/syslog logging.

• Wed Jan 07 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - added the /etc/pam.d config file
  - updated PAM patch to include session support

• Tue Jan 06 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - updated to ppp-2.3.3, build against glibc-2.0.6 - previous patches not
    required any more.
  - added buildroot
  - fixed the PAM support, which was really, completely broken and against any
    standards (session support is still not here... :-( )
  - we build against running kernel and pray that it will work
  - added a samples patch; updated glibc patch

• Thu Dec 18 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added a patch to use our own route.h, rather then glibc's (which has 
    alignment problems on Alpha's) -- I only applied this patch on the Alpha,
    though it should be safe everywhere

• Fri Oct 10 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - turned off the execute bit for scripts in /usr/doc

• Fri Jul 18 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - built against glibc

• Tue Mar 25 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - Integrated new patch from David Mosberger
  - Improved description