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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-5732: dhcp security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-5732: dhcp security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/28/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/02/2018
Modified
10/21/2019

Description

Failure to properly bounds-check a buffer used for processing DHCP options allows a malicious server (or an entity masquerading as a server) to cause a buffer overflow (and resulting crash) in dhclient by sending a response containing a specially constructed options section. Affects ISC DHCP versions 4.1.0 -> 4.1-ESV-R15, 4.2.0 -> 4.2.8, 4.3.0 -> 4.3.6, 4.4.0

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-dhclient
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-dhcp
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-dhcp-common
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-dhcp-libs

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