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Amazon Linux Local Check: ALAS-2012-31
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Amazon Linux Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
8 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
Amazon Linux Local Security Checks
Insight
Insight
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled DHCP request packets when regular expression matching was used in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash dhcpd. (CVE-2011-4539 )
Solution
Solution
Run yum update dhcp to update your system.