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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-2774: Vulnerability in DHCP Server

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-2774: Vulnerability in DHCP Server

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/09/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

ISC DHCP 4.1.x before 4.1-ESV-R13 and 4.2.x and 4.3.x before 4.3.4 does not restrict the number of concurrent TCP sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure or request-processing outage) by establishing many sessions.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-service-network-dhcp-isc-dhcp-4-1-0-7-2-0-175-3-10-0-1-0

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