From ${URL} : libdns in ISC DHCP 4.2.x before 4.2.5-P1 allows remote name servers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a dhcpd process, a related issue to CVE-2013-2266.
Commit message: Version bump http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/dhcp/dhcp-4.2.5_p1.ebuild?rev=1.1
(In reply to comment #1) > Commit message: Version bump > http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/dhcp/dhcp-4.2.5_p1.ebuild?rev=1.1 Thank you. Arches, please test and mark stable. Target KEYWORDS: "alpha amd64 arm hppa ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
amd64 stable
x86 stable
Stable for HPPA.
CVE-2013-2494 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2494): libdns in ISC DHCP 4.2.x before 4.2.5-P1 allows remote name servers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a dhcpd process, a related issue to CVE-2013-2266.
ppc stable
ppc64 stable
alpha stable
arm stable
sparc stable
s390 stable
sh stable
GLSA request filed.
@base-system: Is possible a cleanup of <4.2.5_p1 ? If not I'll proceed to mask it.
Cleanup is done, permission granted by Tony Vroon
This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201401-05 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-05.xml by GLSA coordinator Sergey Popov (pinkbyte).
