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Red Hat Enterprise 2.1 RHSA-2007:0970-01 Important: DHCP Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2007
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical security patch for DHCP on CentOS resolves a significant vulnerability. Implement the upgrade to safeguard your network from possible threats.
An updated dhcp package that corrects a security flaw is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

327781 - CVE-2007-5365 dhcpd stack-based buffer overlow

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 :

SRPMS: bc3905c228b60bbc915df1b3b15d6f12 dhcp-2.0pl5-11.src.rpm

i386: 79e4f918da843b09ffa9d9ee6c09e89c dhcp-2.0pl5-11.i386.rpm

ia64: c490264ff32b441938a6543185f22b43 dhcp-2.0pl5-11.ia64.rpm

Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:

SRPMS: bc3905c228b60bbc915df1b3b15d6f12 dhcp-2.0pl5-11.src.rpm

ia64: c490264ff32b441938a6543185f22b43 dhcp-2.0pl5-11.ia64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1:

SRPMS: bc3905c228b60bbc915df1b3b15d6f12 dhcp-2.0pl5-11.src.rpm

i386: 79e4f918da843b09ffa9d9ee6c09e89c dhcp-2.0pl5-11.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow important fix dhcp

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5365 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2007:0970-01
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0970.html
Issue date: 2007-10-23
Updated on: 2007-10-23
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Topic

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow important fix dhcp

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 - i386, ia64

Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 - ia64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 - i386

Bugs Fixed

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