Debian DSA-750-1 Critical: Dhcpcd Out-Of-Bound Access Issue
debian
July 11, 2005
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.
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Summary
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.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 592 b6f08de07c771dfa88ee4c2da213c8ef
Size/MD5 checksum: 44718 bde490fd50bea65991eff869db8cb947
Size/MD5 checksum: 148273 59669a4110a2061f05c1c6fa6171bed2
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum:...
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