CentOS 3 : dhcp (CESA-2009:1154)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 39801

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated dhcp packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol that allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information, including an IP address, a subnet mask, and a broadcast address.

The Mandriva Linux Engineering Team discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in the ISC DHCP client. If the DHCP client were to receive a malicious DHCP response, it could crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the client (root). (CVE-2009-0692)

An insecure temporary file use flaw was discovered in the DHCP daemon's init script ('/etc/init.d/dhcpd'). A local attacker could use this flaw to overwrite an arbitrary file with the output of the 'dhcpd
-t' command via a symbolic link attack, if a system administrator executed the DHCP init script with the 'configtest', 'restart', or 'reload' option. (CVE-2009-1893)

Users of DHCP should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected dhcp packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f436f05d

http://www.nessus.org/u?901dd6c7

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 39801

File Name: centos_RHSA-2009-1154.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dhclient, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dhcp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dhcp-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0692, CVE-2009-1893

BID: 35668

CWE: 119, 59

RHSA: 2009:1154