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Gentoo: GLSA 200907-12 High Severity: ISC DHCP Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A critical release notice from Gentoo regarding ISC DHCP remote code execution stemming from a buffer overflow vulnerability. Users are urged to update their systems promptly.
A buffer overflow in dhclient as included in the ISC DHCP implementation allows for the remote execution of arbitrary code with root privileges

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200907-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: ISC DHCP: dhcpclient Remote execution of arbitrary code Date: July 14, 2009 Bugs: #277729 ID: 200907-12

Synopsis ======= A buffer overflow in dhclient as included in the ISC DHCP implementation allows for the remote execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.
Background ========= ISC DHCP is the reference implementation of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol as specified in RFC 2131.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/dhcp < 3.1.1-r1 >= 3.1.1-r1
========== The Mandriva Linux Engineering Team has reported a stack-based buffer over...

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