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High
CVE-2011-0997
dhclient in ISC DHCP 3.0.x through 4.2.x before 4.2.1-P1, 3.1-ESV...
Vulnerability Description
dhclient in ISC DHCP 3.0.x through 4.2.x before 4.2.1-P1, 3.1-ESV before 3.1-ESV-R1, and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a hostname obtained from a DHCP message, as demonstrated by a hostname that is provided to dhclient-script.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47176
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0886
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44103
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0840.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44037
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689832
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0926
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44127
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:073
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0909
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12812
- http://www.osvdb.org/71493
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44090
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44048
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058279.html
- https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/advisories/cve-2011-0997
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66580
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0879
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/107886
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025300
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.593345
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1000
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0915
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0965
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37623/
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-06.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44180
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2217
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1108-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2216
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057888.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0428.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44089
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Affected Vendor
Affected Software
dhcp, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.1-esv, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 4.1-esv, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 6.06, 8.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10
Timeline
Official Publish:
April 8th, 2011
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.