USN-299-1: dhcdbd vulnerability
Publication date
14 June 2006
Overview
dhcdbd vulnerability
Releases
Details
Florian Hackenberger discovered a memory corruption bug in dhcdbd (the
NetworkManager daemon for processing DHCP operations). Invalid DHCP
responses crashed dhcdbd, which caused NetworkManager to not work any
more.
Florian Hackenberger discovered a memory corruption bug in dhcdbd (the
NetworkManager daemon for processing DHCP operations). Invalid DHCP
responses crashed dhcdbd, which caused NetworkManager to not work any
more.
Update instructions
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
---|---|---|---|
6.06 dapper | dhcdbd – 1.10-0ubuntu11.1 |
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