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Gentoo: GLSA 200808-05 Normal: ISC DHCP Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The recent Gentoo Security Announcement GLSA 200908-06 highlights a critical vulnerability in OpenSSH that necessitates urgent action from system administrators.
A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in ISC DHCP.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200808-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ISC DHCP: Denial of Service Date: August 06, 2008 Bugs: #227135 ID: 200808-05

Synopsis ======= A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in ISC DHCP.
Background ========= ISC DHCP is ISC's reference implementation of all aspects of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/dhcp < 3.1.1 >= 3.1.1
========== A buffer overflow error was found in ISC DHCP server, that can only be exploited under unusual server configurations where the DHCP server is configured to provide clients with a large set ...

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