Upstream information
Description
Integer overflow in the ISC dhcpd 3.0.x before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.1; and the DHCP server in EMC VMware Workstation before 5.5.5 Build 56455 and 6.x before 6.0.1 Build 55017, Player before 1.0.5 Build 56455 and Player 2 before 2.0.1 Build 55017, ACE before 1.0.3 Build 54075 and ACE 2 before 2.0.1 Build 55017, and Server before 1.0.4 Build 56528; allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code via a malformed DHCP packet with a large dhcp-max-message-size that triggers a stack-based buffer overflow, related to servers configured to send many DHCP options to clients.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Resolved
This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.
| National Vulnerability Database | |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 10 |
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Complete |
| Integrity Impact | Complete |
| Availability Impact | Complete |
SUSE Security Advisories:
- SUSE-SR:2009:005, published Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0000
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:48:12 2013CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:19:15 2023