CVE-2010-3616

ISC DHCP 4.2 - Denial of Service via Failover Peer Port Access

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

ISC DHCP server 4.2 before 4.2.0-P2, when configured to use failover partnerships, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (communications-interrupted state and DHCP client service loss) by connecting to a port that is only intended for a failover peer, as demonstrated by a Nagios check_tcp process check to TCP port 520.

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052329.html
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/42618
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3208
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0052
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2010-December/012368.html
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/159528
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024862
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:001
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45360
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/42682

Scores

EPSS 0.0607
EPSS Percentile 90.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
isc/dhcp 4.2.0 (2 CPE variants)
Published Dec 17, 2010
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026