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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS: USN-803-1 Critical Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A vulnerability in the DHCP client of Ubuntu might enable remote adversaries to trigger a denial of service or run malicious code.
It was discovered that the DHCP client as included in dhcp3 did not verifythe length of certain option fields when processing a response from an IPv4dhcp server

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security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu network attack dhcp client

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dhcp3 vulnerability

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security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu network attack dhcp client

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