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Debian DSA-2292-1 : isc-dhcp - denial of service

high Nessus Plugin ID 55820

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Synopsis

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

Description

David Zych discovered that the ISC DHCP crashes when processing certain packets, leading to a denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the ISC DHCP packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.1-6+lenny6 of the dhcp3 package.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze3 of the isc-dhcp package.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/isc-dhcp

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2292

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55820

File Name: debian_DSA-2292.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:isc-dhcp, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2748, CVE-2011-2749

DSA: 2292