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Fedora 24: 2016-821f013cb1 Critical DoS: DHCP Security Issue

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Recent Fedora 24 DHCP upgrade resolves vulnerability CVE-2016-2774, mitigating potential Denial of Service threats associated with TCP sessions.
New upstream release

Summary

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)

Update Information:

New upstream release. Contains security fix for CVE-2016-2774.

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1315259 - CVE-2016-2774 dhcp: unclosed TCP connections to OMAPI or failover ports can cause DoS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315259

Update Instructions

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

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Name: dhcp
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.3.4
Release: 1.fc24
URL: Summary : Dynamic host configuration protocol software

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