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Red Hat 6.6: RHSA-2018-1459-01 Critical: DHCP Command Injection

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2018
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A vital security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux resolves vulnerabilities in DHCP that could allow command injection, thereby improving overall network integrity.
An update for dhcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol that allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information, including an IP address, a subnet mask, and a broadcast address. The dhcp packages provide a relay agent and ISC DHCP service required to enable and administer DHCP on a network.
Security Fix(es):
* A command injection flaw was found in the NetworkManager integration script included in the DHCP client packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A malicious DHCP server, or an attacker on the local network able to spoof DHCP responses, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on systems using NetworkManager and configured to obtain network configuration using the DHCP protocol. (CVE-2018-1111)
Red Hat would like to thank Felix Wilhelm (Google Security Team) for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security Red Hat critical update command injection

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1111 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6):
Source: dhcp-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.src.rpm
x86_64: dhclient-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-common-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-debuginfo-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 6.6):
Source: dhcp-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.src.rpm
x86_64: dhclient-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-common-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-debuginfo-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 6.6):
x86_64: dhcp-debuginfo-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.i686.rpm dhcp-debuginfo-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-devel-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.i686.rpm dhcp-devel-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional TUS (v. 6.6):
x86_64: dhcp-debuginfo-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.i686.rpm dhcp-debuginfo-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-devel-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.i686.rpm dhcp-devel-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2.x86_64.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1459-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1459
Issue date: 2018-05-15

Topic

An update for dhcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco ExtendedUpdate Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security Red Hat critical update command injection

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 6.6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional TUS (v. 6.6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 6.6) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1567974 - CVE-2018-1111 dhcp: Command injection vulnerability in the DHCP client NetworkManager integration script

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