Debian Security Advisory

DSA-750-1 dhcpcd -- out-of-bound memory access

Date Reported:
11 Jul 2005
Affected Packages:
dhcpcd
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1848.
More information:

"infamous42md" discovered that dhcpcd, a DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking, can be tricked into reading past the end of the supplied DHCP buffer which could lead to the daemon crashing.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.22pl4-21sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.22pl4-22.

We recommend that you upgrade your dhcpcd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.