Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The dhcp3-server-ldap package on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system has multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to violations of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : dhcp3 vulnerability (USN-1108-1)

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the dhclient utility incorrectly filtered crafted responses. An attacker could use this flaw with a malicious DHCP server to execute arbitrary code, resulting in root privilege escalation. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description...