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SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : dhcpcd (SUSE-SU-2015:2174-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 87199

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Synopsis

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

Description

dhcpcd was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed :

 - A missing length check in decode_search could have caused DOS (bsc#955762).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-dhcpcd-12241=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-dhcpcd-12241=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-dhcpcd-12241=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch slessp2-dhcpcd-12241=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-dhcpcd-12241=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-dhcpcd-12241=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-dhcpcd-12241=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-dhcpcd-12241=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp2-dhcpcd-12241=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955762

http://www.nessus.org/u?bd814fe4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87199

File Name: suse_SU-2015-2174-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2015

Updated: 4/2/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dhcpcd

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2015