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Debian 4.0 DSA-1388-1: Critical DHCP Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2007
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Ubuntu USN-1234-1 addresses a critical code injection issue in the Network Time Protocol (NTP) service stemming from a memory corruption weakness. Discover further details.
It was discovered that dhcp, a DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment, didn't correctly allocate space for network replies

Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0pl5-19.5etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed shortly.

We recommend that you upgrade your dhcp 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: 86946 9a8f4a8219d0df0ea8d00a766afb1cb3
Size/MD5 checksum: 687 22ac1bac4dbdd4bb034921b496eb7ad8

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 53920 bdcdd8fe476006baff32bba6797ce8f6
Size/MD5 checksum: 80140 e2a2bea48927595e1...

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