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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : dhcp (MDKSA-2004:061)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 14160

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A vulnerability in how ISC's DHCPD handles syslog messages can allow a malicious attacker with the ability to send special packets to the DHCPD listening port to crash the daemon, causing a Denial of Service.
It is also possible that they may be able to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable server with the permissions of the user running DHCPD, which is usually root.

A similar vulnerability also exists in the way ISC's DHCPD makes use of the vsnprintf() function on system that do not support vsnprintf().
This vulnerability could also be used to execute arbitrary code and/or perform a DoS attack. The vsnprintf() statements that have this problem are defined after the vulnerable code noted above, which would trigger the previous problem rather than this one.

Thanks to Gregory Duchemin and Solar Designer for discovering these flaws.

The updated packages contain 3.0.1rc14 which is not vulnerable to these problems. Only ISC DHCPD 3.0.1rc12 and 3.0.1rc13 are vulnerable to these issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 14160

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2004-061.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Published: 7/31/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:dhcp-client, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:dhcp-common, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:dhcp-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:dhcp-relay, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:dhcp-server, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.0, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0460, CVE-2004-0461

CERT: 317350, 654390

MDKSA: 2004:061