Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.8
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The server in ISC DHCP 3.x and 4.x before 4.2.2, 3.1-ESV before 3.1-ESV-R3, and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon exit) via a crafted DHCP packet.

1 / 2
Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The server in ISC DHCP 3.x and 4.x before 4.2.2, 3.1-ESV before 3.1-ESV-R3, and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon exit) via a crafted BOOTP packet.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

dhclient in ISC DHCP 3.0.x through 4.2.x before 4.2.1-P1, 3.1-ESV before 3.1-ESV-R1, and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a hostname obtained from a DHCP message, as demonstrated by a hostname that is provided to dhclient-script.

1 / 2
Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A vulnerability stemming from failure to properly clean up closed OMAPI connections can lead to exhaustion of the pool of socket descriptors available to the DHCP server. Affects ISC DHCP 4.1.0 to 4.1-ESV-R15, 4.2.0 to 4.2.8, 4.3.0 to 4.3.6. Older versions may also be affected but are well beyond their end-of-life (EOL). Releases prior to 4.1.0 have not been tested.

1 / 3
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Failure to properly bounds check a buffer used for processing DHCP options allows a malicious server (or an entity masquerading as a server) to cause a buffer overflow (and resulting crash) in dhclient by sending a response containing a specially constructed options section.

Versions of DHCP affected: 4.1.0 -> 4.1-ESV-R15, 4.2.0 -> 4.2.8, 4.3.0 -> 4.3.6, 4.4.0

1 / 3
Source: Red Hat

Remedy

Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of DHCP. ISC DHCP releases are available from https://www.isc.org/downloads. >= DHCP 4.1-ESV-R15-P1 >= DHCP 4.3.6-P1 >= DHCP 4.4.1
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Integer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A malicious client which is allowed to send very large amounts of traffic (billions of packets) to a DHCP server can eventually overflow a 32-bit reference counter, potentially causing dhcpd to crash.

Versions of DHCP affected: 4.1.0 -> 4.1-ESV-R15, 4.2.0 -> 4.2.8, 4.3.0 -> 4.3.6, 4.4.0

1 / 3
Source: Red Hat

Remedy

Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of DHCP. DHCP 4.1-ESV-R15-P1 DHCP 4.3.6-P1 DHCP 4.4.1
First published (updated )
Severity
7.1
Input Validation
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

ISC DHCP 4.1.x before 4.1-ESV-R13 and 4.2.x and 4.3.x before 4.3.4 does not restrict the number of concurrent TCP sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure or request-processing outage) by establishing many sessions.

1 / 2
Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Input Validation
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.1-ESV-R12-P1, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid length field in a UDP IPv4 packet.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

In ISC DHCP 1.0 -> 4.4.3, ISC DHCP 4.1-ESV-R1 -> 4.1-ESV-R16-P1 a system with access to a DHCP server, sending DHCP packets crafted to include fqdn labels longer than 63 bytes, could eventually cause the server to run out of memory.

Remedy

Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of ISC DHCP. These can all be downloaded from https://www.isc.org/downloads. 4.4.3-P1 4.1-ESV-R16-P2
First published (updated )
Severity
6.1
Buffer Overflow
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

ISC DHCP 4.1.2 through 4.2.4 and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a malformed client identifier.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

ISC DHCP server 4.2 before 4.2.0-P2, when configured to use failover partnerships, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (communications-interrupted state and DHCP client service loss) by connecting to a port that is only intended for a failover peer, as demonstrated by a Nagios checktcp process check to TCP port 520.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

dhcpd in ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.2.3-P1 and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R4 does not properly handle regular expressions in dhcpd.conf, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted request packet.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-3611 to the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2010-3611 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3611 Assigned: 20100927 Reference: CONFIRM: http://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/advisories/cve-2010-3611 Reference: CERT-VN:VU#102047 Reference: URL: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102047 Reference: BID:44615 Reference: URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44615 Reference: SECUNIA:42082 Reference: URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/42082 Reference: VUPEN:ADV-2010-2879 Reference: URL: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2879 Reference: XF:iscdhcp-relayforward-dos(62965) Reference: URL: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/62965

ISC DHCP server 4.0 before 4.0.2, 4.1 before 4.1.2, and 4.2 before 4.2.0-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a DHCPv6 packet containing a Relay-Forward message without an address in the Relay-Forward link-address field.

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
3.3
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Multiple memory leaks in ISC DHCP 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4-P1 and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending many requests.

First published (updated )

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