Description of problem: We've found a replicable situation where pppd causes a kernel crash. First of all a bit of framework. We use pppd to provide remote support to some of our customers. Every customer has a personal account to connect to our server using PPP. The firewall on these accounts is configured so that we can connect back to their servers and check for problems, but the remote server has basicly no access at all to our network. Since few weeks one of these customers caught a virus or a dialer (it uses a windows based server) which tries to connect to our server using the RAS entry configured for remote support, probably thinking it is an Internet connection. The RAS entry has the password saved, so that the virus is able to authenticate against our server, even though it isn't able to do anything else because of the configured firewall. So far nothing wrong, by the way sometimes the virus is able to bring our server down because of a kernel crash. I haven't been able to save the kernel OOPS on screen but it clearly reported that the problem was caused by ppp. I have a log of the debug PPP session as saved by pppd (see attachemnt). We will further investigate to try to identify the virus or the dialer and may be catch the kernel OOPS. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ppp 2.4.3-6.2.1, kernel-smp 2.6.17 1.2157_FC5 How reproducible: difficult to reproduce Steps to Reproduce: you need an infected windows pc, more info to be gathered Actual results: kernel crash Expected results: normal connection but no kernel crash and everything filtered out by the firewall Additional info: none
Sorry, duplicated by mistake. See bug 231850.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231850 ***