Bug 856766 (CVE-2012-3955) - CVE-2012-3955 dhcp: reduced expiration time of an IPv6 lease may cause dhcpd to crash
Summary: CVE-2012-3955 dhcp: reduced expiration time of an IPv6 lease may cause dhcpd ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-3955
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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Depends On: 856770 Engineering858130
Blocks: Embargoed855229 Embargoed856776
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Reported: 2012-09-12 18:46 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2021-02-23 13:52 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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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

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fix derived from upstream dhcp-4.2.4-P2 (7.34 KB, patch)
2012-09-12 18:53 UTC, Vincent Danen 		no flags Details | Diff
patch for dhcp-4.1.1-P1 in RHEL-6 (4.39 KB, patch)
2012-09-17 10:14 UTC, Jiri Popelka 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0504 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: dhcp security and bug fix update 2013-02-20 21:30:36 UTC

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
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