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Ubuntu: USN-2868-1 (CVE-2015-8605): DHCP vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-2868-1 (CVE-2015-8605): DHCP vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/02/2016
Modified
11/08/2024

Description

ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.1-ESV-R12-P1, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid length field in a UDP IPv4 packet.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-isc-dhcp-client
  • ubuntu-upgrade-isc-dhcp-relay
  • ubuntu-upgrade-isc-dhcp-server
  • ubuntu-upgrade-isc-dhcp-server-ldap

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