ISC DHCP: Denial of Service

ISC DHCP: Denial of Service A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in ISC DHCP. dhcp August 06, 2008 August 06, 2008: 01 227135 remote 3.1.1 3.1.1

ISC DHCP is ISC's reference implementation of all aspects of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.

A buffer overflow error was found in ISC DHCP server, that can only be exploited under unusual server configurations where the DHCP server is configured to provide clients with a large set of DHCP options.

A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All ISC DHCP users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/dhcp-3.1.1"

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