Overview
ISC DHCPv6 versions 4.0.x - 4.2.x are susceptible to a denial-of-service vulnerability.
Description
The ISC Advisory states: "When the DHCPv6 server code processes a message for an address that was previously declined and internally tagged as abandoned it can trigger an assert failure resulting in the server crashing. This could be used to crash DHCPv6 servers remotely. This issue only affects DHCPv6 servers. DHCPv4 servers are unaffected." |
Impact
A remote attacker may cause a denial of service. |
Solution
Upgrade |
Vendor Information
686084
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Larissa Shapiro for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jared Allar.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2011-0413 |
| Severity Metric: | 0.95 |
| Date Public: | 2011-01-26 |
| Date First Published: | 2011-01-27 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2011-01-28 12:38 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 11 |