Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-2774 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.1 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
COMPLETE

Summary

ISC DHCP 4.1.x before 4.1-ESV-R13 and 4.2.x and 4.3.x before 4.3.4 does not restrict the number of concurrent TCP sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure or request-processing outage) by establishing many sessions.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2019-1443.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the versions of the dhcp packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.1-ESV-R12-P1, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid length field in a UDP IPv4 packet.(CVE-2015-8605) - A denial of service flaw was found in the way dhcpd handled reference counting when processing client requests. A malicious DHCP client could use this flaw to trigger a reference count overflow on the server side, potentially causing dhcpd to crash, by sending large amounts of traffic.(CVE-2018-5733) - An out-of-bound memory access flaw was found in the way dhclient processed a DHCP response packet. A malicious DHCP server could potentially use this flaw to crash dhclient processes running on DHCP client machines via a crafted DHCP response packet.(CVE-2018-5732) - A resource-consumption flaw was discovered in the DHCP server. dhcpd did not restrict the number of open connections to OMAPI and failover ports. A remote attacker able to establish TCP connections to one of these ports could use this flaw to cause dhcpd to exit unexpectedly, stop responding requests, or exhaust system sockets (denial of service).(CVE-2016-2774) - It was found that the DHCP daemon did not properly clean up closed OMAPI connections in certain cases. A remote attacker able to connect to the OMAPI port could use this flaw to exhaust file descriptors in the DHCP daemon, leading to a denial of service in the OMAPI functionality.(CVE-2017-3144) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id124946
    published2019-05-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124946
    titleEulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : dhcp (EulerOS-SA-2019-1443)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(124946);
      script_version("1.4");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/17");
    
      script_cve_id(
        "CVE-2015-8605",
        "CVE-2016-2774",
        "CVE-2017-3144",
        "CVE-2018-5732",
        "CVE-2018-5733"
      );
    
      script_name(english:"EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : dhcp (EulerOS-SA-2019-1443)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages.");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
    "The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security
    updates.");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
    "According to the versions of the dhcp packages installed, the EulerOS
    Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the
    following vulnerabilities :
    
      - ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.1-ESV-R12-P1, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x
        before 4.3.3-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a
        denial of service (application crash) via an invalid
        length field in a UDP IPv4 packet.(CVE-2015-8605)
    
      - A denial of service flaw was found in the way dhcpd
        handled reference counting when processing client
        requests. A malicious DHCP client could use this flaw
        to trigger a reference count overflow on the server
        side, potentially causing dhcpd to crash, by sending
        large amounts of traffic.(CVE-2018-5733)
    
      - An out-of-bound memory access flaw was found in the way
        dhclient processed a DHCP response packet. A malicious
        DHCP server could potentially use this flaw to crash
        dhclient processes running on DHCP client machines via
        a crafted DHCP response packet.(CVE-2018-5732)
    
      - A resource-consumption flaw was discovered in the DHCP
        server. dhcpd did not restrict the number of open
        connections to OMAPI and failover ports. A remote
        attacker able to establish TCP connections to one of
        these ports could use this flaw to cause dhcpd to exit
        unexpectedly, stop responding requests, or exhaust
        system sockets (denial of service).(CVE-2016-2774)
    
      - It was found that the DHCP daemon did not properly
        clean up closed OMAPI connections in certain cases. A
        remote attacker able to connect to the OMAPI port could
        use this flaw to exhaust file descriptors in the DHCP
        daemon, leading to a denial of service in the OMAPI
        functionality.(CVE-2017-3144)
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable
    has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
    without introducing additional issues.");
      # https://developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-1443
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?478f042c");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
    "Update the affected dhcp packages.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/05/07");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/05/14");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:dhclient");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:dhcp");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:dhcp-common");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:dhcp-libs");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.1.0");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_family(english:"Huawei Local Security Checks");
    
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/EulerOS/release", "Host/EulerOS/rpm-list", "Host/EulerOS/uvp_version");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    
    release = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/release");
    if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^EulerOS") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS");
    uvp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version");
    if (uvp != "3.0.1.0") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0");
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "EulerOS", cpu);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i686 / x86_64", cpu);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    pkgs = ["dhclient-4.2.5-68.1.h10",
            "dhcp-4.2.5-68.1.h10",
            "dhcp-common-4.2.5-68.1.h10",
            "dhcp-libs-4.2.5-68.1.h10"];
    
    foreach (pkg in pkgs)
      if (rpm_check(release:"EulerOS-2.0", reference:pkg)) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
        extra      : rpm_report_get()
      );
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "dhcp");
    }
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2016-887.NASL
    descriptionThis update for dhcp fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : - CVE-2016-2774: Fixed a denial of service attack against the DHCP server over the OMAPI TCP socket, which could be used by network adjacent attackers to make the DHCP server non-functional (bsc#969820). Non security issues fixed : - Rename freeaddrinfo(), getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() in the internal libirs library that does not consider /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf to use irs_ prefix. This prevents name conflicts which would result in overriding standard glibc functions used by libldap. (bsc#972907) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-07-22
    plugin id92506
    published2016-07-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92506
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : dhcp (openSUSE-2016-887)
  • NASL familyOracle Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLELINUX_ELSA-2016-2590.NASL
    descriptionFrom Red Hat Security Advisory 2016:2590 : An update for dhcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol that allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information, including an IP address, a subnet mask, and a broadcast address. The dhcp packages provide a relay agent and ISC DHCP service required to enable and administer DHCP on a network. Security Fix(es) : * A resource-consumption flaw was discovered in the DHCP server. dhcpd did not restrict the number of open connections to OMAPI and failover ports. A remote attacker able to establish TCP connections to one of these ports could use this flaw to cause dhcpd to exit unexpectedly, stop responding requests, or exhaust system sockets (denial of service). (CVE-2016-2774) Red Hat would like to thank ISC for reporting this issue. Additional Changes : For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id94711
    published2016-11-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94711
    titleOracle Linux 7 : dhcp (ELSA-2016-2590)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2016-1735-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for dhcp fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-2774: Fixed a denial of service attack against the DHCP server over the OMAPI TCP socket, which could be used by network adjacent attackers to make the DHCP server non-functional (bsc#969820). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id93176
    published2016-08-29
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93176
    titleSUSE SLES11 Security Update : dhcp (SUSE-SU-2016:1735-1)
  • NASL familyCentOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idCENTOS_RHSA-2016-2590.NASL
    descriptionAn update for dhcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol that allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information, including an IP address, a subnet mask, and a broadcast address. The dhcp packages provide a relay agent and ISC DHCP service required to enable and administer DHCP on a network. Security Fix(es) : * A resource-consumption flaw was discovered in the DHCP server. dhcpd did not restrict the number of open connections to OMAPI and failover ports. A remote attacker able to establish TCP connections to one of these ports could use this flaw to cause dhcpd to exit unexpectedly, stop responding requests, or exhaust system sockets (denial of service). (CVE-2016-2774) Red Hat would like to thank ISC for reporting this issue. Additional Changes : For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id95336
    published2016-11-28
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95336
    titleCentOS 7 : dhcp (CESA-2016:2590)
  • NASL familyPhotonOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idPHOTONOS_PHSA-2016-0013.NASL
    descriptionAn update of [ subversion, libtasn1, unzip, dhcp ] packages for PhotonOS has been released.
    last seen2019-02-21
    modified2019-02-07
    plugin id111847
    published2018-08-17
    reporterTenable
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=111847
    titlePhoton OS 1.0: Dhcp / Libtasn1 / Subversion / Unzip PHSA-2016-0013 (deprecated)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2016-1791-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for dhcp fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : - CVE-2016-2774: Fixed a denial of service attack against the DHCP server over the OMAPI TCP socket, which could be used by network adjacent attackers to make the DHCP server non-functional (bsc#969820). Non security issues fixed : - Rename freeaddrinfo(), getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() in the internal libirs library that does not consider /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf to use irs_ prefix. This prevents name conflicts which would result in overriding standard glibc functions used by libldap. (bsc#972907) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id93181
    published2016-08-29
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93181
    titleSUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : dhcp (SUSE-SU-2016:1791-1)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2016-2024-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for dhcp fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-2774: Fixed a denial of service attack against the DHCP server over the OMAPI TCP socket, which could be used by network adjacent attackers to make the DHCP server non-functional (bsc#969820). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id93286
    published2016-09-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93286
    titleSUSE SLES11 Security Update : dhcp (SUSE-SU-2016:2024-1)
  • NASL familyScientific Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idSL_20161103_DHCP_ON_SL7_X.NASL
    descriptionSecurity Fix(es) : - A resource-consumption flaw was discovered in the DHCP server. dhcpd did not restrict the number of open connections to OMAPI and failover ports. A remote attacker able to establish TCP connections to one of these ports could use this flaw to cause dhcpd to exit unexpectedly, stop responding requests, or exhaust system sockets (denial of service). (CVE-2016-2774) Additional Changes :
    last seen2020-03-18
    modified2016-12-15
    plugin id95836
    published2016-12-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95836
    titleScientific Linux Security Update : dhcp on SL7.x x86_64 (20161103)
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2016-2590.NASL
    descriptionAn update for dhcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol that allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information, including an IP address, a subnet mask, and a broadcast address. The dhcp packages provide a relay agent and ISC DHCP service required to enable and administer DHCP on a network. Security Fix(es) : * A resource-consumption flaw was discovered in the DHCP server. dhcpd did not restrict the number of open connections to OMAPI and failover ports. A remote attacker able to establish TCP connections to one of these ports could use this flaw to cause dhcpd to exit unexpectedly, stop responding requests, or exhaust system sockets (denial of service). (CVE-2016-2774) Red Hat would like to thank ISC for reporting this issue. Additional Changes : For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id94553
    published2016-11-04
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94553
    titleRHEL 7 : dhcp (RHSA-2016:2590)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-2003.NASL
    descriptionAn issue has been found in isc-dhcp, a server for automatic IP address assignment. The number of simultaneous open TCP connections to OMAPI port of the server has to be limited to 200 in order to avoid a denial of service. For Debian 8
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id131248
    published2019-11-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/131248
    titleDebian DLA-2003-1 : isc-dhcp security update
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-3E64B32A91.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2016-2774 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-07-14
    plugin id92086
    published2016-07-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92086
    titleFedora 22 : 12:dhcp (2016-3e64b32a91)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2016-1692-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for dhcp fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-2774: Fixed a denial of service attack against the DHCP server over the OMAPI TCP socket, which could be used by network adjacent attackers to make the DHCP server non-functional (bsc#969820). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id93167
    published2016-08-29
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93167
    titleSUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : dhcp (SUSE-SU-2016:1692-1)
  • NASL familyPhotonOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idPHOTONOS_PHSA-2016-0013_DHCP.NASL
    descriptionAn update of the dhcp package has been released.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2019-02-07
    plugin id121654
    published2019-02-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121654
    titlePhoton OS 1.0: Dhcp PHSA-2016-0013
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-3586-1.NASL
    descriptionKonstantin Orekhov discovered that the DHCP server incorrectly handled a large number of concurrent TCP sessions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2774) It was discovered that the DHCP server incorrectly handled socket descriptors. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-3144) Felix Wilhelm discovered that the DHCP client incorrectly handled certain malformed responses. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the DHCP client to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. In the default installation, attackers would be isolated by the dhclient AppArmor profile. (CVE-2018-5732) Felix Wilhelm discovered that the DHCP server incorrectly handled reference counting. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the DHCP server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-5733). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id107117
    published2018-03-02
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/107117
    titleUbuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.10 : isc-dhcp vulnerabilities (USN-3586-1)
  • NASL familyPhotonOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idPHOTONOS_PHSA-2016-0013_LIBTASN1.NASL
    descriptionAn update of the libtasn1 package has been released.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2019-02-07
    plugin id121655
    published2019-02-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121655
    titlePhoton OS 1.0: Libtasn1 PHSA-2016-0013
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-ISC-DHCP-CVE-2016-2774.NASL
    descriptionRedHat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the bundled ISC DHCP server due to a failure to properly restrict the number of concurrent TCP sessions to the ports the server uses for inter-process communications and control. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by opening a large number of TCP sessions, to cause the server to fail to process requests or to exit unexpectedly, or to cause an exhaustion of system sockets. Note that this vulnerability is more easily exploited when the DHCP server is using OMAPI for remote management.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id90250
    published2016-03-29
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90250
    titleRHEL 6 / 7 : ISC DHCP Concurrent TCP Sessions DoS
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2016-1065.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the version of the dhcp packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - ISC DHCP 4.1.x before 4.1-ESV-R13 and 4.2.x and 4.3.x before 4.3.4 does not restrict the number of concurrent TCP sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure or request-processing outage) by establishing many sessions.(CVE-2016-2774) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-05-06
    modified2017-05-01
    plugin id99827
    published2017-05-01
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/99827
    titleEulerOS 2.0 SP1 : dhcp (EulerOS-SA-2016-1065)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-C93D49FAF3.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2016-2774 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-05-05
    plugin id90901
    published2016-05-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90901
    titleFedora 23 : dhcp-4.3.3-9.P1.fc23 (2016-c93d49faf3)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-821F013CB1.NASL
    descriptionNew upstream release. Contains security fix for CVE-2016-2774. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-05-09
    plugin id90962
    published2016-05-09
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90962
    titleFedora 24 : dhcp-4.3.4-1.fc24 (2016-821f013cb1)

Redhat

advisories
bugzilla
id1315259
titleCVE-2016-2774 dhcp: unclosed TCP connections to OMAPI or failover ports can cause DoS
oval
OR
  • commentRed Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
    ovaloval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20070304026
  • AND
    • commentRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed
      ovaloval:com.redhat.rhba:tst:20150364027
    • OR
      • AND
        • commentdhcp-libs is earlier than 12:4.2.5-47.el7
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20162590001
        • commentdhcp-libs is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20162590002
      • AND
        • commentdhclient is earlier than 12:4.2.5-47.el7
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20162590003
        • commentdhclient is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100923006
      • AND
        • commentdhcp-common is earlier than 12:4.2.5-47.el7
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20162590005
        • commentdhcp-common is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20111819004
      • AND
        • commentdhcp is earlier than 12:4.2.5-47.el7
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20162590007
        • commentdhcp is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100923004
      • AND
        • commentdhcp-devel is earlier than 12:4.2.5-47.el7
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20162590009
        • commentdhcp-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
          ovaloval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100923002
rhsa
idRHSA-2016:2590
released2016-11-03
severityModerate
titleRHSA-2016:2590: dhcp security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Moderate)
rpms
  • dhclient-12:4.2.5-47.el7
  • dhcp-12:4.2.5-47.el7
  • dhcp-common-12:4.2.5-47.el7
  • dhcp-debuginfo-12:4.2.5-47.el7
  • dhcp-devel-12:4.2.5-47.el7
  • dhcp-libs-12:4.2.5-47.el7