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

Debian Security Advisory

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

Date Reported:

11 Aug 2011

Affected Packages:

isc-dhcp

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-2748, CVE-2011-2749.

More information:

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

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.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your ISC DHCP packages.