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HistoryJul 15, 2009 - 4:27 p.m.

remote code execution in dhcp-client

2009-07-1516:27:03
lists.opensuse.org
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0.282 Low

EPSS

Percentile

96.3%

The DHCP client (dhclient) could be crashed by a malicious DHCP server sending an overlong subnet field (CVE-2009-0692). In theory a malicious DHCP server could exploit the flaw to execute arbitrary code as root on machines using dhclient to obtain network settings. Newer distributions (SLES10+, openSUSE) do have buffer overflow checking that guards against this kind of stack overflow though. So actual exploitability is rather unlikely.

Solution

There is no known workaround, please install the update packages.