Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200507-16 (dhcpcd)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200507-16. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

GLSA-200507-16 : dhcpcd: Denial of Service vulnerability

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200507-16 dhcpcd: Denial of Service vulnerability infamous42md discovered that dhcpcd can be tricked to read past the end of the supplied DHCP buffer. As a result, this might lead to a crash of the daemon. Impact : With a maliciou...