Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title ISC DHCP: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-200808-05 First vendor Publication 2008-08-06
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-08-06
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in ISC DHCP.

Background

ISC DHCP is ISC's reference implementation of all aspects of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.

Description

A buffer overflow error was found in ISC DHCP server, that can only be exploited under unusual server configurations where the DHCP server is configured to provide clients with a large set of DHCP options.

Impact

A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All ISC DHCP users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/dhcp-3.1.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-0062 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0062

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-05.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-05.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)
50 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2
Application 2
Application 1
Application 1
Application 13

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-12-10 Name : Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:312 (dhcp)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_312.nasl
2009-10-13 Name : SLES10: Security update for DHCP
File : nvt/sles10_dhcp0.nasl
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for DHCP
File : nvt/sles9p5043200.nasl
2009-07-29 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:153 (dhcp)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_153.nasl
2009-07-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-805-1 (ruby1.9)
File : nvt/ubuntu_805_1.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17/20, vmware-player-kernel-2...
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_543_1.nasl
2009-03-02 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:005
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_005.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200711-23 (vmware-workstation vmware-player)
File : nvt/glsa_200711_23.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200808-05 (dhcp)
File : nvt/glsa_200808_05.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
40094 VMware Multiple Products DHCP Server Packet Handling Multiple Remote Overflows

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-12-04 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-312.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse9_12347.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_dhcp-5975.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-27 Name : The remote VMware ESX host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : vmware_VMSA-2007-0006.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_dhcp-090126.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-153.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-19 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_dhcp-5958.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-08-07 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200808-05.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-20 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200711-23.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-16 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-543-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-04 Name : The remote Windows host has an application that is affected by multiple issues.
File : vmware_ws_server_multiple.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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