On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:33:29 +0200
Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:

...

> Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in ISC's DHCP
> implementation:
> 
> It was discovered that dhclient does not properly handle overlong
> subnet mask options, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow and
> possible arbitrary code execution.  (CVE-2009-0692)

...

> For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed
> soon.
> 
> We recommend that you upgrade your dhcp3 packages.

Would it be a good idea to use something like udhcpc in the interim?

Celejar
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