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Debian DSA-750-1 : dhcpcd - out-of-bound memory access

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18665

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

'infamous42md' discovered that dhcpcd, a DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking, can be tricked into reading past the end of the supplied DHCP buffer which could lead to the daemon crashing.

Solution

Upgrade the dhcpcd package.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.22pl4-21sarge1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-750

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18665

File Name: debian_DSA-750.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/11/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dhcpcd, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1848

DSA: 750