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dhcp: denial of service

Package(s):dhcp CVE #(s):CVE-2012-3570
Created:August 2, 2012 Updated:August 8, 2012
Description:

From the Red Hat bugzilla entry:

An unexpected client identifier parameter can cause the ISC DHCP daemon to segmentation fault when running in DHCPv6 mode, resulting in a denial of service to further client requests. In order to exploit this condition, an attacker must be able to send requests to the DHCP server.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11079 2012-08-01
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11110 2012-08-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1006-1 2012-08-20
Mageia MGASA-2012-0256 2012-09-07
Gentoo 201301-06 2013-01-09

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