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TITLE:
Gentoo update for dhcp

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31396

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31396/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
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DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for dhcp. This fixes a weakness, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The weakness is caused due to an integer overflow error, which can be
exploited to crash the server if a large "dhcp-max-message-size" was
specified by a client.

Note: Successful exploitation requires a server configuration which
provides clients with an unlikely amount of DHCP options.

SOLUTION:
Update to "net-misc/dhcp-3.1.1" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200808-05.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-0062

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