National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0461

Overview

The DHCP daemon (DHCPD) for ISC DHCP 3.0.1rc12 and 3.0.1rc13, when compiled in environments that do not provide the vsnprintf function, uses C include files that define vsnprintf to use the less safe vsprintf function, which can lead to buffer overflow vulnerabilities that enable a denial of service (server crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA04-174A

Name: TA04-174A

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-174A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#654390

Name: VU#654390

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/654390

External Source: BID

Name: 10591

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10591

External Source: XF

Name: dhcp-c-include-bo(16476)

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16476

External Source: SUSE

Name: SuSE-SA:2004:019

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_19_dhcp_server.html

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20040628 ISC DHCP overflows

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=108843959502356&w=2

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.xerox.com/downloads/usa/en/c/cert_XRX06_004_v11.pdf

Hyperlink:http://www.xerox.com/downloads/usa/en/c/cert_XRX06_004_v11.pdf

External Source: MANDRAKE

Name: MDKSA-2004:061

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:061

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23265

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23265

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20040708 [OpenPKG-SA-2004.031] OpenPKG Security Advisory (dhcpd)

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=108938625206063&w=2

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20040622 DHCP Vuln // no code 0day //

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=108795911203342&w=2