Debian Security Advisory

DSA-231-1 dhcp3 -- stack overflows

Date Reported:
17 Jan 2003
Affected Packages:
dhcp3
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0026.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#284857, CA-2003-01.
More information:

The Internet Software Consortium discovered several vulnerabilities during an audit of the ISC DHCP Daemon. The vulnerabilities exist in error handling routines within the minires library and may be exploitable as stack overflows. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code under the user id the dhcpd runs under, usually root. Other DHCP servers than dhcp3 doesn't seem to be affected.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain dhcp3 packages.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0+3.0.1rc11-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dhcp3-server package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3_3.0+3.0.1rc9.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-client_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-dev_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-relay_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-client_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-dev_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-relay_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-client_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-dev_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-relay_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-client_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-dev_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-relay_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-client_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-dev_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-relay_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-client_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-dev_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-relay_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-client_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-dev_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-relay_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-client_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-dev_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-relay_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-client_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-dev_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-relay_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-client_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-dev_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-relay_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-client_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-common_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-dev_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-relay_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3-server_3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.1_sparc.deb

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