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Gentoo: 200507-16 Normal: dhcpcd Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey July 15, 2005
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An urgent Gentoo notification regarding the dhcpcd Denial of Service vulnerability. Update promptly to prevent network disruptions!
A vulnerability in dhcpcd may cause the dhcpcd daemon to crash.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: dhcpcd: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: July 15, 2005 Bugs: #98394 ID: 200507-16

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in dhcpcd may cause the dhcpcd daemon to crash.
Background ========= dhcpcd is a standards compliant DHCP client daemon. It requests an IP address and other information from the DHCP server, automatically configures the network interface, and tries to renew the lease time.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/dhcpcd < 1.3.22_p4-r11 >= 1.3.22_p4-r11
========== infamous42md discovered that dhcpcd can be tricked to read past the end of ...

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