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amazonAmazonALAS-2012-031
HistoryJan 05, 2012 - 8:58 p.m.

Medium: dhcp

2012-01-0520:58:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
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5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.02 Low

EPSS

Percentile

88.7%

Issue Overview:

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled DHCP request packets when regular expression matching was used in “/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf”. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash dhcpd. (CVE-2011-4539)

Affected Packages:

dhcp

Issue Correction:
Run yum update dhcp to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    dhcp-devel-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1.i686  
    dhclient-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1.i686  
    dhcp-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1.i686  
    dhcp-debuginfo-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1.i686  
    dhcp-common-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    dhcp-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    dhcp-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1.x86_64  
    dhclient-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1.x86_64  
    dhcp-devel-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1.x86_64  
    dhcp-common-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1.x86_64  
    dhcp-debuginfo-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2011-4539

Mitre: CVE-2011-4539

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.02 Low

EPSS

Percentile

88.7%