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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2184-1 (isc-dhcp)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to isc-dhcp announced via advisory DSA 2184-1.
Insight
Insight
It was discovered that the ISC DHCPv6 server does not correctly process requests which come from unexpected source addresses, leading to an assertion failure and a daemon crash.
Solution
Solution
The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze1. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.1-P1-16. We recommend that you upgrade your isc-dhcp packages.