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Assigned : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2410

From : Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at canonical.com>
Subject : [USN-299-1] dhcdbd vulnerability
Date : 2006-06-14

Original Message

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-299-1 June 13, 2006
dhcdbd vulnerability
https://launchpad.net/bugs/49104
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
dhcdbd 1.10-0ubuntu11.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

Details follow:

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.

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