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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-4868: ISC DHCP: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-4868: ISC DHCP: Denial of service

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/14/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
05/28/2021

Description

The logging functionality in dhcpd in ISC DHCP before 4.2.3-P2, when using Dynamic DNS (DDNS) and issuing IPv6 addresses, does not properly handle the DHCPv6 lease structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via crafted packets related to a lease-status update.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-dhcp

References

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