National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2007-0062)

National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0062

Original release date:09/21/2007

Last revised:07/22/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:10.0 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statments (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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External Source: XF

Name: dhcp-param-overflow(33102)

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33102

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/support/ace/doc/releasenotes_ace.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/support/ace/doc/releasenotes_ace.html

External Source: BID

Name: 25729

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25729

External Source: ISS

Name: 20070919 VMWare DHCP Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.iss.net/threats/275.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=339561

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=339561

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-543-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-543-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018717

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018717

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090312 rPSA-2009-0041-1 dhclient dhcp libdhcp4client

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/501759/100/0/threaded

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2009:153

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:153

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3229

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3229

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0041

Hyperlink:http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0041

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200808-05

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-05.xml

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200711-23

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34263

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34263

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31396

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31396

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27706

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27706

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27694

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27694

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26890

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26890

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:005

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20070920 VMSA-2007-0006 Critical security updates for all supported versions of VMware ESX Server, VMware Server, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE, and VMware Player

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227135

Hyperlink:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227135