Summary
The remote host is missing an update to isc-dhcp
announced via advisory DSA 2292-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202292-1
Insight
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.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-2748, CVE-2011-2749 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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