dhcpcd: Denial of service

dhcpcd: Denial of service A vulnerability in dhcpcd can lead to a Denial of Service condition. dhcpcd September 03, 2014 September 03, 2014: 1 518596 remote 6.4.3 6.4.3

dhcpcd is a fully featured, yet light weight RFC2131 compliant DHCP client.

A vulnerability has been discovered in dhcpcd. A malicious dhcp server can set flags as part of the dhcp reply that can cause a Denial of Service condition.

A remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All dhcpcd users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/dhcpcd-6.4.3"

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