SuSE 11.1 Security Update : dhcp (SAT Patch Number 6671)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64123

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update of dhcp fixes two security vulnerabilities :

- Malformed client identifiers could cause a Denial of Service (excessive CPU consumption), effectively causing further client requests to not be processed anymore.
(CVE-2012-3571)

- Two unspecified memory leaks. (CVE-2012-3954) Additionally, the following issues were fixed :

- The init script of dhcp-server was fixed to check syntax and fail on force-reload and restart to avoid stopping of running daemon followed by start failure

- Added libgcc_s.so to chroot, so the server can report an assert/crash line.

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 6671.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=762108

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772924

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3571.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3954.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64123

File Name: suse_11_dhcp-120813.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:dhcp-relay, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:dhcp-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:dhcp, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:dhcp-server

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/13/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3571, CVE-2012-3954