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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-2929: Security patch for dhcp (ALAS-2022-1874)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-2929: Security patch for dhcp (ALAS-2022-1874)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/07/2022
Created
11/11/2022
Added
11/10/2022
Modified
11/10/2022

Description

In ISC DHCP 1.0 -> 4.4.3, ISC DHCP 4.1-ESV-R1 -> 4.1-ESV-R16-P1 a system with access to a DHCP server, sending DHCP packets crafted to include fqdn labels longer than 63 bytes, could eventually cause the server to run out of memory.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-dhclient
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-dhcp
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-dhcp-common
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-dhcp-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-dhcp-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-dhcp-libs

References

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