dhcpd as included in the ISC DHCP implementation does not properly handle special conditions, leading to a Denial of Service.. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200908-08 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - https://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: ISC DHCP: dhcpd Denial of Service Date: August 18, 2009 Bugs: #275231 ID: 200908-08 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======= dhcpd as included in the ISC DHCP implementation does not properly handle special conditions, leading to a Denial of Service. Background ========= ISC DHCP is the reference implementation of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol as specified in RFC 2131. Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/dhcp < 3.1.2_p1 > = 3.1.2_p1 Description ========== Christoph Biedl discovered that dhcpd does not properly handle certain DHCP requests when configured both using "dhcp-client-identifier" and "hardware ethernet". Impact ===== A remote attacker might send a specially crafted request to dhcpd, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service (daemon crash). Workaround ========= There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution ========= All ISC DHCP users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose =net-misc/dhcp-3.1.2_p1 References ========= [ 1 ] CVE-2009-1892 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1892 Availability =========== This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the GentooSecurity Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200908-08 Concerns? ======== Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
Allow dhcpd and nscd to read certs files in usr_t. Allow postgresql to use ypbind and fix db creation calls.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-023 2005-01-12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : selinux-policy-targeted Version : 1.17.30 Release : 2.72 Summary : SELinux targeted policy configuration Description : Security-enhanced Linux is a patch of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security. This package contains the SELinux example policy configuration along with the Flask configuration information and the application configuration files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: Allow dhcpd and nscd to read certs files in usr_t. Allow postgresql to use ypbind and fix db creation calls. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Tue Jan 11 2005 Dan Walsh 1.17.30-2.72 - Allow dhcpd to read certs files * Tue Jan 11 2005 Dan Walsh 1.17.30-2.71 - Allow nscd to read usr_t to read cert files. - Fix posgresql to allow ypbind, and fix db creation stuff * Wed Jan 05 2005 Dan Walsh 1.17.30-2.68 - Require policycoreutils for selinux-policy-targeted - Run ldconfig as an unconfined_domain ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: 99197102de922db1ae45bd0f632c8a4b SRPMS/selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.72.src.rpm b49b13a51f32f60ef91e840279e111f6 x86_64/selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.72.noarch.rpm 3b3c804d44ff4e1b83412e38c968fcd6 x86_64/selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.72.noarch.rpm b49b13a51f32f60ef91e840279e111f6 i386/selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.72.noarch.rpm 3b3c804d44ff4e1b83412e38c968fcd6 i386/selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.72.noarch.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. -----------------------------------------------------------------------fedora-announce-list mailing list
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