Debian Security Advisory

DLA-362-1 dhcpcd -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
08 Dec 2015
Affected Packages:
dhcpcd
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-6698, CVE-2012-6699, CVE-2012-6700.
More information:

Guido Vranken discovered several memory-related vulnerabilities while fuzzing DHCP messages sent to dhcpcd.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, those issues have been fixed in version 1:3.2.3-5+squeeze2.

  • CVE-2012-6698

    Out-of-bounds write with specially crafted DHCP messages.

  • CVE-2012-6699

    Out-of-bounds read with specially crafted DHCP messages.

  • CVE-2012-6700

    Use after free with specially crafted DHCP messages.