Bug 170764
Summary: | dhclient spews requests on disk error | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Jason Vas Dias <jvdias> |
Component: | dhcp | Assignee: | Jason Vas Dias <jvdias> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4.0 | CC: | grdetil, poelstra |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2006-0114 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2006-03-07 18:14:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 168429 |
Description
Jason Vas Dias
2005-10-14 14:43:21 UTC
fixed with dhcp-3.0.1-40_EL4+ I occurs to me that the problem with this bug, and the seemingly related bug 162080 I reported in June, is that fixing the client side is only half a solution. Sure, the dhclient has to be fixed not to misbehave in this way. However, the dhcp server should similarly be fixed to detect a misbehaving client and stop talking to it for a while. Otherwise, there's a potential denial of service attack problem, in which a misbehaving client can tie up a server or fill its /var/log partition with junk messages. Any chance of getting the server side fixed to handle this better as well? 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/RHBA-2006-0114.html |