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Debian DLA-362-1 : dhcpcd security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 87267

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Guido Vranken discovered several memory-related vulnerabilities while fuzzing DHCP messages sent to dhcpcd.

For Debian 6 'Squeeze', those issues have been fixed in version 1:3.2.3-5+squeeze2.

CVE-2012-6698

Out-of-bounds write with specially crafted DHCP messages.

CVE-2012-6699

Out-of-bounds read with specially crafted DHCP messages.

CVE-2012-6700

Use after free with specially crafted DHCP messages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected dhcpcd package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/12/msg00003.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/dhcpcd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87267

File Name: debian_DLA-362.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dhcpcd, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6698, CVE-2012-6699, CVE-2012-6700