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[DSA219] DSA-219-1 dhcpcd

Family:

Debian Local Security Checks

Category:

infos

Copyright:

This script is (C) 2004 Michel Arboi

Summary:

DSA-219-1 dhcpcd

Version:

$Revision: 1.4 $

Cve_id:

CVE-2002-1403

Bugtraq_id:

6200

Xrefs:

DSA:219

Description:

Simon Kelly discovered a vulnerability in dhcpcd, an RFC2131 and
RFC1541 compliant DHCP client daemon, that runs with root privileges
on client machines. A malicious administrator of the regular or an
untrusted DHCP server may execute any command with root privileges on
the DHCP client machine by sending the command enclosed in shell
metacharacters in one of the options provided by the DHCP server.
This problem has been fixed in version 1.3.17pl2-8.1 for the old
stable distribution (potato) and in version 1.3.22pl2-2 for the
testing (sarge) and unstable (sid) distributions. The current stable
distribution (woody) does not contain a dhcpcd package.
We recommend that you upgrade your dhcpcd package (on the client
machine).


Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-219
Risk factor : High