Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.870920
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Update for dhcp RHSA-2013:0504-02
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'dhcp'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'dhcp' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: The dhcp packages provide the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) that allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information, including an IP address, a subnet mask, and a broadcast address. 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. (CVE-2012-3955) This update also fixes the following bugs: * Prior to this update, the DHCP server discovered only the first IP address of a network interface if the network interface had more than one configured IP address. As a consequence, the DHCP server failed to restart if the server was configured to serve only a subnet of the following IP addresses. This update modifies network interface addresses discovery code to find all addresses of a network interface. The DHCP server can also serve subnets of other addresses. (BZ#803540) * Prior to this update, the dhclient rewrote the /etc/resolv.conf file with backup data after it was stopped even when the PEERDNS flag was set to no before shut down if the configuration file was changed while the dhclient ran with PEERDNS=yes. This update removes the backing up and restoring functions for this configuration file from the dhclient-script. Now, the dhclient no longer rewrites the /etc/resolv.conf file when stopped. (BZ#824622) All users of DHCP are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these issues. After installing this update, all DHCP servers will be restarted automatically. Affected Software/OS: dhcp on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) Solution: Please Install the Updated Packages. CVSS Score: 7.1 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-3955 BugTraq ID: 55530 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55530 Debian Security Information: DSA-2551 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2551 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/086992.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/088882.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088220.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-06.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:153 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2013:0504 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0504.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027528 http://secunia.com/advisories/51318 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:1234 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00088.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:1252 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00103.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:1254 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00105.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1571-1
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