National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0039
Original release date:02/07/2003
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
ISC dhcrelay (dhcp-relay) 3.0rc9 and earlier, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (packet storm) via a certain BOOTP packet that is forwarded to a broadcast MAC address, causing an infinite loop that is not restricted by a hop count.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#149953
Name: VU#149953
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-245
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20030115 DoS against DHCP infrastructure with isc dhcrelay
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: dhcp-dhcrelay-dos(11187)
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 6628
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2003:034
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20030219 [OpenPKG-SA-2003.012] OpenPKG Security Advisory (dhcpd)
External Source: CONECTIVA
Name: CLSA-2003:616
External Source: TURBO
Name: TLSA-2003-26
