Bug 694170 - dhcp: DoS (excessive CPU use) by opening an OMAPI connection
Summary: dhcp: DoS (excessive CPU use) by opening an OMAPI connection
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2011-04-06 16:45 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-24 16:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-04-21 17:03:24 UTC

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2011-04-08 10:37 UTC, Jiri Popelka 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-04-06 16:45:43 UTC 
A security flaw was found in the way DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
server processed remote connections when the dhcpd was configured to provide
Object Management API (OMAPI) capability. A remote attacker could use this flaw
to cause denial of service (excessive CPU use and dhcpd daemon unreachability).

References:
[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680298
[2] https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2011-February/012780.html
[3] https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2011-February/012781.html
[4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666441
[5] http://www.mentby.com/Group/dhcp-users/omapi-not-working-in-420.html
Comment 8 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-04-08 10:50:40 UTC 
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the dhcp package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6.

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This issue did NOT affect the version of the dhcp package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 13.
Comment 9 Vincent Danen 2011-04-21 16:58:15 UTC 
This is fixed in Fedora 14 and higher:

* Mon Jan 03 2011 Jiri Popelka <jpopelka> - 12:4.2.0-17.P2
- Fix OMAPI (#666441)
Comment 10 Vincent Danen 2011-04-21 17:03:24 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of dhcp as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6.
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