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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for dhcp (ALAS-2016-637) (CVE-2015-8605)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for dhcp (ALAS-2016-637) (CVE-2015-8605)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/14/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/21/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.1-ESV-R12-P1 and 4.2.x and 4.3.x before 4.3.3-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid length field in a UDP IPv4 packet.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-dhclient
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-dhcp
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-dhcp-common
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-dhcp-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-dhcp-devel

References

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