Advisories » MGASA-2014-0334

Updated dhcpcd package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Aug 2014
Modification date: 18 Aug 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4

Description

In dhcpcd before 6.4.3, a specially crafted packet received from a malicious
DHCP server caused dhcpcd to enter an infinite loop, causing a denial of
service.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13860
• http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2014&m=slackware-security.462420

SRPMS

3/core

• dhcpcd-5.6.8-1.1.mga3

4/core

• dhcpcd-6.1.0-2.1.mga4