Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0058: dhcp (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0058)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 236136

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2023:0058 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2022-2928:
In ISC DHCP 4.4.0 -> 4.4.3, ISC DHCP 4.1-ESV-R1 -> 4.1-ESV-R16-P1, when the function option_code_hash_lookup() is called from add_option(), it increases the option's refcount field. However, there is not a corresponding call to option_dereference() to decrement the refcount field. The function add_option() is only used in server responses to lease query packets. Each lease query response calls this function for several options, so eventually, the reference counters could overflow and cause the server to abort.

CVE-2022-2929:
In ISC DHCP 1.0 -> 4.4.3, ISC DHCP 4.1-ESV-R1 -> 4.1-ESV-R16-P1 a system with access to a DHCP server, sending DHCP packets crafted to include fqdn labels longer than 63 bytes, could eventually cause the server to run out of memory.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 236136

File Name: alinux3_sa_2023-0058.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2929

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-devel, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-devel-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-relay-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-client, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-server, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-relay, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:dhcp-common

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/4/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2928, CVE-2022-2929

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