DSA-3534-1 dhcpcd -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3534-1 dhcpcd -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Mar 2016

Affected Packages:

dhcpcd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-6698, CVE-2012-6699, CVE-2012-6700.

More information:

Guido Vranken discovered several vulnerabilities in dhcpcd, a DHCP client, which may result in denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1:3.2.3-11+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dhcpcd packages.