Bug 856766 (CVE-2012-3955)

Summary: CVE-2012-3955 dhcp: reduced expiration time of an IPv6 lease may cause dhcpd to crash
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: low    
Version: unspecifiedCC: jpopelka, nparmar, thozza
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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A flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled the expiration time of IPv6 leases. If dhcpd's configuration was changed to reduce the default IPv6 lease time, lease renewal requests for previously assigned leases could cause dhcpd to crash.
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Last Closed: 2013-02-22 04:45:31 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 856770, 858130    
Bug Blocks: 855229, 856776    
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fix derived from upstream dhcp-4.2.4-P2
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patch for dhcp-4.1.1-P1 in RHEL-6 none

Description Vincent Danen 2012-09-12 18:46:07 UTC 
A flaw was reported in ISC DHCP [1] where it was found that reducing the expiration time for an active IPv6 lease could possible cause the dhcpd server to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition for clients.

ISC has recommended that when setting a value for the default-least-time option, that it be done in the configuration file and not reduced once set.

This has been corrected in upstream versions 4.1-ESV-R7 and 4.2.4-P2.

[1] https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00779/75
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-09-12 18:53:37 UTC 
Created attachment 612210 [details]
fix derived from upstream dhcp-4.2.4-P2
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2012-09-12 18:54:34 UTC 
Created dhcp tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 856770]
Comment 4 Jiri Popelka 2012-09-17 10:14:17 UTC 
Created attachment 613622 [details]
patch for dhcp-4.1.1-P1 in RHEL-6

extracted from diff of dhcp-4.1-ESV-R6 and dhcp-4.1-ESV-R7
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 23:12:53 UTC 
dhcp-4.2.4-15.P2.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 19 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-09-25 08:35:24 UTC 
Upstream recommends that this issue can be mitigated by setting a value for the "default-lease-time" option in the configuration file and should not reduced once it is set.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of dhcp as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Comment 20 Fedora Update System 2012-09-26 08:52:52 UTC 
dhcp-4.2.4-13.P2.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 21 Fedora Update System 2012-10-03 03:20:44 UTC 
dhcp-4.2.4-1.P2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 08:23:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0504 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0504.html