Bug 649877 (CVE-2010-3611)

Summary: CVE-2010-3611 dhcp: NULL pointer dereference crash via crafted DHCPv6 packet
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jpopelka, mganisin
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Bug Depends On: 649880, 651913, 651914    
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Description Vincent Danen 2010-11-04 18:11:36 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-3611 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2010-3611
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3611
Assigned: 20100927
Reference: CONFIRM: http://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/advisories/cve-2010-3611
Reference: CERT-VN:VU#102047
Reference: URL: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102047
Reference: BID:44615
Reference: URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44615
Reference: SECUNIA:42082
Reference: URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/42082
Reference: VUPEN:ADV-2010-2879
Reference: URL: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2879
Reference: XF:iscdhcp-relayforward-dos(62965)
Reference: URL: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/62965

ISC DHCP server 4.0 before 4.0.2, 4.1 before 4.1.2, and 4.2 before
4.2.0-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)
via a DHCPv6 packet containing a Relay-Forward message without an
address in the Relay-Forward link-address field.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-11-04 18:15:44 UTC 
Created dhcp tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 649880]
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2010-11-04 18:21:25 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of dhcp as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 as they did not include support for DHCPv6.
Comment 3 Jiri Popelka 2010-11-05 08:09:29 UTC 
Created attachment 458016 [details]
upstream fix
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-30 18:12:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2010:0923 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0923.html