gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201301-04.xml

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<glsa id="201301-04">
  <title>dhcpcd: Arbitrary code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in dhcpcd, allowing remote attackers
    to execute arbitrary code on the DHCP client.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">dhcpcd</product>
  <announced>January 09, 2013</announced>
  <revised>January 09, 2013: 1</revised>
  <bug>362459</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/dhcpcd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">5.2.12</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">5.2.12</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>dhcpcd is a fully featured, yet light weight RFC2131 compliant DHCP
      client.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in dhcpcd. Please review the CVE
      identifier referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>The vulnerability might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on
      the DHCP client.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All dhcpcd users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/dhcpcd-5.2.12"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0996">CVE-2011-0996</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:25 +0000">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:39:13 +0000">craig</metadata>
</glsa>