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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : dhcp3, isc-dhcp vulnerability (USN-1571-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62180

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Glen Eustace discovered that the DHCP server incorrectly handled IPv6 expiration times. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause DHCP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-3955)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the DHCP AppArmor profile could be escaped by using environment variables. This update mitigates the issue by sanitizing certain variables in the DHCP shell scripts.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1571-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62180

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1571-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/18/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:isc-dhcp-client, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dhcp3-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dhcp3-server, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:isc-dhcp-server, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3955

BID: 55530

USN: 1571-1