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Ubuntu 1108-1 Urgent Advisory: Critical dhclient Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2011
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Critical vulnerability in dhclient tool exposes multiple Ubuntu versions to unauthorized root privilege escalation.
Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the dhclient utility incorrectly filtered crafted responses

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dhcp3 vulnerability

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