Summary
The remote host is missing an update to dhcp
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-9075.
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update dhcp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-9075
Insight
Update Information:
Do not require policycoreutils when installing dhcp or dhclient packages. If you have the package installed, the /sbin/restorecon program will be used by dhclient-script and the dhcpd init script. This update to the dhcp package includes fixes for CVE-2009-0692 and CVE-2009-1892.
Note: CVE-2009-0692 had no security consequences on Fedora, thanks to the use of FORTIFY_SOURCE
ChangeLog:
* Wed Aug 26 2009 David Cantrell - 12:4.1.0p1-4
- Do not require policycoreutils for dhclient subpackage, fix restorecon calls in postinstall scriptlets (#519479)
* Wed Aug 26 2009 David Cantrell - 12:4.1.0p1-3
- Do not require policycoreutils for post scriptlet (#519479) * Thu Aug 6 2009 David Cantrell - 12:4.1.0p1-2
- Add /usr/lib[64]/pm-utils/sleep.d/56dhclient to handle suspend and resume with active dhclient leases (#479639)
* Wed Aug 5 2009 David Cantrell - 12:4.1.0p1-1
- Upgrade to dhcp-4.1.0p1, which is the official upstream release to fix CVE-2009-0692
* Wed Aug 5 2009 David Cantrell - 12:4.1.0-25
- Fix for CVE-2009-0692
- Fix for CVE-2009-1892 (#511834)
- Disable patch for #514828 since that fix is still in updates-testing * Tue Aug 4 2009 David Cantrell - 12:4.1.0-24
- Correct lease file format written by dhclient (#514828)
References
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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