Executive Summary

Summary
Title dhcpcd: Arbitrary code execution
Informations
Name GLSA-201301-04 First vendor Publication 2013-01-09
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2013-01-09
Severity (Vendor) High 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been found in dhcpcd, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the DHCP client.

Background

dhcpcd is a fully featured, yet light weight RFC2131 compliant DHCP client.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in dhcpcd. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Impact

The vulnerability might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the DHCP client.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All dhcpcd users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/dhcpcd-5.2.12"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-0996 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0996

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-04.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-04.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-09-10 Name : Slackware Advisory SSA:2011-210-02 dhcpcd
File : nvt/esoft_slk_ssa_2011_210_02.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
74997 dhcpcd DHCP Server hostname Response Parsing Shell Metacharacter Arbitrary Co...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_dhcpcd-110419.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_dhcpcd-110411.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_dhcpcd-110419.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-09 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201301-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_dhcpcd-7433.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_dhcpcd-7453.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-08-01 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2011-210-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_dhcpcd-110411.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_dhcpcd-110419.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-04 Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse9_12697.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-20 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_dhcpcd-110415.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-11 Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse9_12698.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-11 Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse9_12699.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-11 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_dhcpcd-110407.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-11 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_dhcpcd-7452.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-07 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_dhcpcd-7432.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-07 Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse9_12696.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:37:39
  • Multiple Updates
2013-01-09 05:18:02
  • First insertion