Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2011-2717

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The DHCPv6 client dhcp6c as used in the dhcpv6 project through 2011-07-25 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a...

RHEL 5 : dhcpv6 (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - dhcpv6: insufficient checking of DHCP options CVE-2011-2717 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has...

CVE-2011-2717

The DHCPv6 client dhcp6c as used in the dhcpv6 project through 2011-07-25 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a hostname obtained from a DHCP message...

CVE-2011-2717

CVE-2011-2717 affects the DHCPv6 client (dhcp6c) used in the dhcpv6 project up to 2011-07-25. The underlying issue is shell metacharacter handling in a hostname received from a DHCPv6 message, allowing remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via that hostname. The connected documents co...