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Slackware 10.1: 2005-255-01 Moderate DHCPCD Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2005
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Recent updates to the dhcpcd packages for Slackware 8.1 and later address a vulnerability that could allow denial of service attacks via rogue DHCP servers.
New dhcpcd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a minor security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i486-2.tgz: Patched an issue where a remote attacker can cause dhcpcd to crash. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CAN-2005-1848 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security fix slackware dhcpcd

Where Find New Packages

Updated package for Slackware 8.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patches/packages/dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i386-2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 9.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patches/packages/dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i386-2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 9.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/patches/packages/dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i486-2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i486-2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.1/patches/packages/dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i486-2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 8.1 package: 44b66bd3cd5c40462487d712d4a71658 dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i386-2.tgz
Slackware 9.0 package: 8da58d01be00250353e5b2a170f62cc8 dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i386-2.tgz
Slackware 9.1 package: b6cd305e1958850aef13eb33e5117cc0 dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i486-2.tgz
Slackware 10.0 package: ec17f5bd67d70f5657adf7342a41e167 dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i486-2.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package: 38d0418326a302e536e21a05e6bdb01f dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i486-2.tgz
Slackware -current package: 4634de215bbdd2e9d2affc673ff38d3a dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i486-2.tgz

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security fix slackware dhcpcd

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg dhcpcd-1.3.22pl4-i486-2.tgz