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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).

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References

CVE Name

CVE-2011-4539