Executive Summary

Summary
Title dhcdbd vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-299-1 First vendor Publication 2006-06-13
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2006-06-13
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
dhcdbd 1.10-0ubuntu11.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Florian Hackenberger discovered a memory corruption bug in dhcdbd (the NetworkManager daemon for processing DHCP operations). Invalid DHCP responses crashed dhcdbd, which caused NetworkManager to not work any more.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-299-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
26765 dhcdbd NetworkManager DHCP Message Handling Memory Corruption DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-299-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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