Summary
The remote host is missing an update to dhcp3
announced via advisory DSA 1833-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201833-1
Insight
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in ISC's DHCP implementation:
It was discovered that dhclient does not properly handle overlong subnet mask options, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow and possible arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2009-0692)
Christoph Biedl discovered that the DHCP server may terminate when receiving certain well-formed DHCP requests, provided that the server configuration mixes host definitions using dhcp-client-identifier and hardware ethernet. This vulnerability only affects the lenny versions of dhcp3-server and dhcp3-server-ldap. (CVE-2009-1892)
For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.4-13+etch2.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.1-6+lenny2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your dhcp3 packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-0692, CVE-2009-1892 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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