[USN-4451-2] ppp vulnerability

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From: Leonidas S. Barbosa <leo.barbosa@canonical.com>

Date: Aug 6, 2020 11:48PM

 Thomas Chauchefoin discovered that ppp incorrectly handled module loading.

 A local attacker could use this issue to load arbitrary kernel modules and

 possibly execute arbitrary code.

References:

  https://usn.ubuntu.com/4451-2

  https://usn.ubuntu.com/4451-1

  CVE-2020-15704