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isc-dhcp-server -- Remote DoS

Affected packages
isc-dhcp42-server < 4.2.3_1
isc-dhcp41-server < 4.1.e_3,2

Details

VuXML ID 93be487e-211f-11e1-89b4-001ec9578670
Discovery 2011-12-07
Entry 2011-12-07

ISC reports:

A bug exists which allows an attacker who is able to send DHCP Request packets, either directly or through a relay, to remotely crash an ISC DHCP server if that server is configured to evaluate expressions using a regular expression (i.e. uses the "~=" or "~~" comparison operators).

References

CVE Name CVE-2011-4539