Executive Summary

Summary
Title dhcpcd: Denial of service
Informations
Name GLSA-201409-03 First vendor Publication 2014-09-03
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-09-03
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:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 3.3 Attack Range Adjacent network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 6.5 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in dhcpcd can lead to a Denial of Service condition.

Background

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

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in dhcpcd. A malicious dhcp server can set flags as part of the dhcp reply that can cause a Denial of Service condition.

Impact

A remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service condition.

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-6.4.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-6060 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-6060

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201409-03.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201409-03.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 95
Application 2
Os 48

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-09-12 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-171.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-04 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201409-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-04 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2014-213-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-09-05 21:27:35
  • Multiple Updates
2014-09-05 13:24:20
  • Multiple Updates
2014-09-04 21:27:13
  • Multiple Updates
2014-09-03 21:22:54
  • First insertion