CVE-2003-0039

Summary

CVECVE-2003-0039
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2003-02-07 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-10-10 01:30:00 UTC
DescriptionISC dhcrelay (dhcp-relay) 3.0rc9 and earlier, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (packet storm) via a certain BOOTP packet that is forwarded to a broadcast MAC address, causing an infinite loop that is not restricted by a hop count.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc1 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc10 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc2 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc3 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc4 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc5 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc6 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc7 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc8 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc9 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc1 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc10 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc2 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc3 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc4 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc5 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc6 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc7 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc8 All All
Application Isc Dhcpd 3.0.1 rc9 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-245-1 dhcp3 DEBIAN www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
'DoS against DHCP infrastructure with isc dhcrelay' - MARC BUGTRAQ marc.info
redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#149953 CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
Home - Conectiva CONECTIVA distro.conectiva.com.br
OpenPKG: Security Advisory [OpenPKG-SA-2003.012-dhcpd] BUGTRAQ www.openpkg.org
TLSA-2003-26 TURBO cc.turbolinux.com
ISC DHCPD dhcrelay Extraneous Network Packets Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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