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Fedora Core 2 2004-190 Critical: DHCP Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey June 25, 2004
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Crucial vulnerability fix released for Fedora Core 2’s DNS service; urgent upgrade recommended for safety.
This release fixes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Fedora Core 2 dhcp-3.0.1rc12-*.

Summary

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol which allows

individual devices on an IP network to get their own network

configuration information (IP address, subnetmask, broadcast address,

etc.) from a DHCP server. The overall purpose of DHCP is to make it

easier to administer a large network. The dhcp package includes the

ISC DHCP service and relay agent.

To use DHCP on your network, install a DHCP service (or relay agent),

and on clients run a DHCP client daemon. The dhcp package provides

the ISC DHCP service and relay agent.

Update Information:

dhcp-3.0.1rc14-1 is now available. This release fixes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Fedora Core 2 dhcp-3.0.1rc12-*. We strongly urge you to upgrade.

(CAN-2004-0460, CAN-2004-0461)

Update will also be inRawhide Tomorrow.

This update can be downloaded from:

897c80adca3003975bfa42ec0bba5b55 SRPMS/dhcp-3.0.1rc14-1.src.rpm 0882aea526e1e18840eb0f4f40f02755 x86_64/dhcp-3.0.1rc14-1.x86_64.rpm 2bb511e354ee98f4fb28e6717f729b95 x86_64/dhclient-3.0.1rc14-1.x86_64.rpm bb0c361146a939b8ec35a0316f3f3d4c x86_64/dhcp-devel-3.0.1rc14-1.x86_64.rpm 5fa117855101aac239de6ac2a5af3eba x86_64/debug/dhcp-debuginfo-3.0.1rc14-1.x86_64.rpm a9ef45e9a74f3869a907ffcc5639c600 i386/dhcp-3.0.1rc14-1.i386.rpm 712617febeab53a9fb7e246f0322fb40 i386/dhclient-3.0.1rc14-1.i386.rpm 58ed2439d5d34f9db0c73a59e3405811 i386/dhcp-devel-3.0.1rc14-1.i386.rpm 4b0a126e729021bfd152621356161096 i386/debug/dhcp-debuginfo-3.0.1rc14-1.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch th...

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Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-190 2004-06-23
Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : dhcp Version : 3.0.1rc14 Release : 1 Summary : A DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server and relay agent. Description : DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol which allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information (IP address, subnetmask, broadcast address, etc.) from a DHCP server. The overall purpose of DHCP is to make it easier to administer a large network. The dhcp package includes the ISC DHCP service and relay agent.
To use DHCP on your network, install a DHCP service (or relay agent), and on clients run a DHCP client daemon. The dhcp package provides the ISC DHCP service and relay agent.

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora Core 2
Name: dhcp
Version: 3.0.1rc14 Release : 1 Summary : A DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server and relay agent.

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