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dhcp: denial of service

Package(s):

dhcp

CVE #(s):

CVE-2012-3955

Created:

September 14, 2012

Updated:

March 11, 2013

Description:

From the Mageia advisory:

In the ISC DHCP server, prior to 4.2.4-P2, reducing the expiration time for an active IPv6 lease may cause the server to crash (CVE-2012-3955).

Alerts:

Mageia	MGASA-2012-0270	2012-09-14
Slackware	SSA:2012-258-01	2012-09-14
Mandriva	MDVSA-2012:153	2012-09-16
Ubuntu	USN-1571-1	2012-09-18
Debian	DSA-2551-1	2012-09-24
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1234-1	2012-09-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-14149	2012-09-26
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1252-1	2012-09-26
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1254-1	2012-09-26
Mandriva	MDVSA-2012:153-1	2012-10-02
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-14076	2012-10-03
Gentoo	201301-06	2013-01-09
Red Hat	RHSA-2013:0504-02	2013-02-21
Oracle	ELSA-2013-0504	2013-02-25
Scientific Linux	SL-dhcp-20130228	2013-02-28
CentOS	CESA-2013:0504	2013-03-09

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