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Red Hat: RHSA-2021-2418-01 Important: dhcp Buffer Overflow Security Threat

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Calendar Grey June 14, 2021
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Critical Red Hat notice concerning DHCP security patch related to buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Safeguard your infrastructures diligently.
An update for dhcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced 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):
* dhcp: stack-based buffer overflow when parsing statements with colon-separated hex digits in config or lease files in dhcpd and dhclient (CVE-2021-25217)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security Red Hat buffer overflow dhcp important update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-25217 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.2):
Source: dhcp-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.src.rpm
x86_64: dhclient-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-common-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-debuginfo-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.i686.rpm dhcp-debuginfo-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-libs-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.i686.rpm dhcp-libs-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 7.2):
x86_64: dhcp-debuginfo-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.i686.rpm dhcp-debuginfo-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm dhcp-devel-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.i686.rpm dhcp-devel-4.2.5-42.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2418-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2418
Issue date: 2021-06-14

Topic

An update for dhcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2Advanced Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security Red Hat buffer overflow dhcp important update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.2) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 7.2) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1963258 - CVE-2021-25217 dhcp: stack-based buffer overflow when parsing statements with colon-separated hex digits in config or lease files in dhcpd and dhclient

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