DSA-219

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-219
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/dsa-osv/DSA-219.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DSA-219
Withdrawn
2024-05-15T05:36:14.128190Z
Published
2002-12-31T00:00:00Z
Modified
2022-07-04T02:00:37.342024Z
Summary
dhcpcd - remote command execution
Details

Simon Kelly discovered a vulnerability in dhcpcd, an RFC2131 and RFC1541 compliant DHCP client daemon, that runs with root privileges on client machines. A malicious administrator of the regular or an untrusted DHCP server may execute any command with root privileges on the DHCP client machine by sending the command enclosed in shell metacharacters in one of the options provided by the DHCP server.

This problem has been fixed in version 1.3.17pl2-8.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 1.3.22pl2-2 for the testing (sarge) and unstable (sid) distributions. The current stable distribution (woody) does not contain a dhcpcd package.

We recommend that you upgrade your dhcpcd package (on the client machine).

References

Affected packages