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CVE-2007-0062 Detail

Current Description

Integer overflow in the ISC dhcpd 3.0.x before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.1; and the DHCP server in EMC VMware Workstation before 5.5.5 Build 56455 and 6.x before 6.0.1 Build 55017, Player before 1.0.5 Build 56455 and Player 2 before 2.0.1 Build 55017, ACE before 1.0.3 Build 54075 and ACE 2 before 2.0.1 Build 55017, and Server before 1.0.4 Build 56528; allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code via a malformed DHCP packet with a large dhcp-max-message-size that triggers a stack-based buffer overflow, related to servers configured to send many DHCP options to clients.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  09/21/2007
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Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.0 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 10.0
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Provides administrator access
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (06/03/2008)

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-0062

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Hyperlink Resource
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227135
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-05.xml
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0041
http://www.iss.net/threats/275.html Patch
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:153
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501759/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25729 Patch
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018717
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-543-1
http://www.vmware.com/support/ace/doc/releasenotes_ace.html Patch
http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html Patch
http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html Patch
http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html Patch
http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html Patch
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html Patch
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html Patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229 Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=339561
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33102

Technical Details

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-0062
NVD Published Date:
09/21/2007
NVD Last Modified:
10/16/2018