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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhcpcd/dhcpcd_1.3.22pl4-21sarge1.diff.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.