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dhcp: denial of service

Package(s):dhcp CVE #(s):CVE-2010-3616
Created:December 17, 2010 Updated:February 2, 2011
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

A flaw was found in ISC's dhcpd [1] where, if a server receives a TCP connection on a port that has been configured for communication with a failover peer, it would be come unresponsive to all normal DHCP protocol traffic. This will result in the server no longer providing DHCP services to clients until it is restarted.

This flaw only affects DHCP version 4.2 and is corrected in DHCP 4.2.0-P2. Previous versions of DHCP are not vulnerable.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2011-0862 2011-01-28
Mandriva MDVSA-2011:001 2011-01-07
Fedora FEDORA-2010-18856 2010-12-13

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