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CVSSv2

CVE-2005-1848

Published: 11/07/2005 Updated: 05/09/2008
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The dhcpcd DHCP client prior to 1.3.22 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via unknown vectors that cause an out-of-bounds memory read.

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phystech dhcpcd 1.3.17_pl2

Vendor Advisories

Synopsis dhcpcd security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An updated dhcpcd package that fixes a denial of service issue isnow availableThis update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team Description The dhcpcd package i ...
"infamous42md" discovered that dhcpcd, a DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking, can be tricked into reading past the end of the supplied DHCP buffer which could lead to the daemon crashing The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in vers ...