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ELSA-2012-1140 Moderate: Oracle Linux dhcp security update

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ELSA-2012-1140 Moderate: Oracle Linux dhcp security update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

07/25/2012

Created

07/25/2018

Added

08/07/2012

Modified

04/11/2019

Description

ISC DHCP 4.1.2 through 4.2.4 and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a malformed client identifier.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-dhclient
oracle-linux-upgrade-dhcp
oracle-linux-upgrade-dhcp-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-libdhcp4client
oracle-linux-upgrade-libdhcp4client-devel

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2012-3571
54665
CVE - 2012-3571
DSA-2516
DSA-2519
Category I
2016-A-0293
RHSA-2012:1140
RHSA-2012:1141
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2012-August/002971.html

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