National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5365

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in the cons_options function in options.c in dhcpd in OpenBSD 4.0 through 4.2, and some other dhcpd implementations based on ISC dhcp-2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a DHCP request specifying a maximum message size smaller than the minimum IP MTU.

Impact

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External Source: BID

Name: 25984

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25984

External Source: OPENBSD

Name: [4.2] 20071008 001: SECURITY FIX: October 8, 2007

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#001_dhcpd

External Source: OPENBSD

Name: [4.1] 20071008 010: SECURITY FIX: October 8, 2007

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openbsd.org/errata41.html#010_dhcpd

External Source: OPENBSD

Name: [4.0] 20071008 016: SECURITY FIX: October 8, 2007

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openbsd.org/errata40.html#016_dhcpd

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/dhcpd/options.c

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/dhcpd/options.c

External Source: XF

Name: openbsd-dhcp-bo(37045)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/37045

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3088

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3088

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-531-2

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-531-2

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-531-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-531-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018794

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018794

External Source: BID

Name: 32213

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32213

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071102 DoS Exploit for DHCPd bug (Bugtraq ID 25984 ; CVE-2007-5365)

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483230/100/100/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071011 CORE-2007-0928: Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in OpenBSDâ??s DHCP server

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/482085/100/100/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0970

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0970.html

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 4601

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4601

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1388

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1388

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=ContentMod&action=item&id=1962

Hyperlink:http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=ContentMod&action=item&id=1962

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 243806

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-243806-1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109077-21-1

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109077-21-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021157

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1021157

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32668

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32668

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27350

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27350

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27338

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27338

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27273

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27273

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27160

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27160

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5817

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5817

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446354

Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446354

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5817

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5817