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Fedora 22: Security Advisory For Kea Malformed Packet Handling

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Calendar Grey January 8, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Immediate security patch for Kea in Fedora 22 to address issues that could lead to crashes when processing malformed packet data.
Security fix for CVE-2015-8373

Summary

DHCP implementation from Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

that features fully functional DHCPv4, DHCPv6 and Dynamic DNS servers.

Both DHCP servers fully support server discovery,

address assignment, renewal, rebinding and release. The DHCPv6

server supports prefix delegation. Both servers support DNS Update

mechanism, using stand-alone DDNS daemon.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-8373

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix malformed packets DHCP server kea

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1293857 - CVE-2015-8373 kea: unexpected termination while handling a malformed packet https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293857

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update kea' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: kea
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 0.9.2
Release: 2.fc22
URL: http://kea.isc.org
Summary: DHCPv4, DHCPv6 and DDNS server from ISC

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix malformed packets DHCP server kea

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