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Bug 162009

Summary: CAN-2005-1848 dhcpcd bad packet crash
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: dhcpcdAssignee: Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 2.1CC: security-response-team
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,source=vendorsec,reported=20050628,public=20050711
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-603 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-07-27 15:11:50 UTC Type: ---
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Proposed patch for this issue none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-06-29 02:20:43 UTC 
Debian has notified vendor-sec of a security hole in dhcpcd: A malformed DHCP
packet can make the code read beyond the end of a buffer and therefore
potentially crash. There's no root execution exposure.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-06-29 02:22:49 UTC 
Created attachment 116105 [details]
Proposed patch for this issue
Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2005-07-12 07:52:14 UTC 
Public by Debian, removing embargo
Comment 3 Jason Vas Dias 2005-07-14 21:55:46 UTC 
Now fixed with dhcpcd-1.3.20pl0-2 .
Errata RHSA-2005:603-02 raised.
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-07-27 15:11:50 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-603.html