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Scientific Linux: CVE-2011-0413 Moderate: dhcp DoS Threat

Calendar Mar 04, 2011 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate update DoS dhcp Scientific Linux abandonment
Moderate: dhcp security update 
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:31:05 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: dhcp on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: dhcp security update
Issue date:	2011-02-15
CVE Names:	CVE-2011-0413

A flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon processed certain DHCPv6
messages for addresses that had previously been declined and marked as
abandoned internally. If a remote attacker sent such messages to dhcpd,
it could cause dhcpd to crash due to an assertion failure if it was
running as a DHCPv6 server. (CVE-2011-0413)

After installing this update, all DHCP servers will be restarted
automatically.

SL 6.x

 SRPMS:
dhcp-4.1.1-12.P1.el6_0.2.src.rpm
 i386:
dhclient-4.1.1-12.P1.el6_0.2.i686.rpm
dhcp-4.1.1-12.P1.el6_0.2.i686.rpm
dhcp-devel-4.1.1-12.P1.el6_0.2.i686.rpm
 x86_64:
dhclient-4.1.1-12.P1.el6_0.2.x86_64.rpm
dhcp-4.1.1-12.P1.el6_0.2.x86_64.rpm
dhcp-devel-4.1.1-12.P1.el6_0.2.i686.rpm
dhcp-devel-4.1.1-12.P1.el6_0.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson