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isc-dhcp: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):isc-dhcp CVE #(s):CVE-2012-3571 CVE-2012-3954
Created:July 26, 2012 Updated:August 6, 2012
Description:

From the Debian advisory:

CVE-2012-3571: Markus Hietava of the Codenomicon CROSS project discovered that it is possible to force the server to enter an infinite loop via messages with malformed client identifiers.

CVE-2012-3954: Glen Eustace discovered that DHCP servers running in DHCPv6 mode and possibly DHCPv4 mode suffer of memory leaks while processing messages. An attacker can use this flaw to exhaust resources and perform denial of service attacks.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-2516-1 2012-07-26
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:116 2012-07-26
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:115 2012-07-26
Ubuntu USN-1519-1 2012-07-26
Debian DSA-2519-1 2012-08-01
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11079 2012-08-01
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1140-01 2012-08-03
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1141-01 2012-08-03
CentOS CESA-2012:1140 2012-08-03
CentOS CESA-2012:1141 2012-08-03
Oracle ELSA-2012-1140 2012-08-03
Oracle ELSA-2012-1141 2012-08-03
Scientific Linux SL-dhcp-20120803 2012-08-03
Scientific Linux SL-dhcp-20120803 2012-08-03
Debian DSA-2519-2 2012-08-04
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11110 2012-08-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1006-1 2012-08-20
Slackware SSA:2012-237-01 2012-08-24
Mageia MGASA-2012-0256 2012-09-07
Gentoo 201301-06 2013-01-09
Oracle ELSA-2013-0504 2013-02-25

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