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USN-803-2: Dhcp vulnerability

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USN-803-2: Dhcp vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/14/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the script_write_params method in client/dhclient.c in ISC DHCP dhclient 4.1 before 4.1.0p1, 4.0 before 4.0.1p1, 3.1 before 3.1.2p1, 3.0, and 2.0 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted subnet-mask option.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-dhcp-client
  • ubuntu-upgrade-dhcp3-client
  • ubuntu-upgrade-dhcp3-client-udeb

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