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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53309
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian Security Advisory DSA 231-1 (dhcp3)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to dhcp3;announced via advisory DSA 231-1.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to dhcp3
announced via advisory DSA 231-1.

Vulnerability Insight:
The Internet Software Consortium discovered several vulnerabilities
during an audit of the ISC DHCP Daemon. The vulnerabilities exist in
error handling routines within the minires library and may be
exploitable as stack overflows. This could allow a remote attacker to
execute arbitrary code under the user id the dhcpd runs under, usually
root. Other DHCP servers than dhcp3 doesn't seem to be affected.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain dhcp3 packages.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-1.

Solution:
We recommend that you upgrade your dhcp3-server package.

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0026
BugTraq ID: 6627
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6627
Bugtraq: 20030122 [securityslackware.com: [slackware-security] New DHCP packages available] (Google Search)
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-01/0250.html
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-01.html
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#284857
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/284857
Computer Incident Advisory Center Bulletin: N-031
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-031.shtml
Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2003:562
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000562
Debian Security Information: DSA-231 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-231
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:007
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2003.002.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-011.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1005924
SuSE Security Announcement: SuSE-SA:2003:0006 (Google Search)
http://www.suse.com/de/security/2003_006_dhcp.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SuSE-SA:2003:006 (Google Search)
XForce ISS Database: dhcpd-minires-multiple-bo(11073)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11073
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