Security Best Practice: Adobe Flash Proxy Auto-Discovery DHCP Traffic Inspection

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP is a protocol used by networked devices to obtain the parameters necessary for operation in an Internet Protocol network. This protocol reduces system administration workload, allowing devices to be added to the network with little or no manual...

Wireshark corrupts the stack when inspecting BOOTP traffic

Off-by-one error in the DHCP/BOOTP dissector in Wireshark before 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via crafted DHCP-over-DOCSIS packets...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: dhcp security update

An updated dhcp package that corrects a security flaw is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The dhcp package provides the ISC Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP server and rela...

DHCP (CAN-2004-0899; CAN-2004-0900)

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is used to administrate IP address configuration. Clients request an IP address from a server that leases them addresses. Attacks on the DHCP protocol usually target a vulnerability in the server software used, by sending specially crafted DHCP packets...