Vulnerability CVE-2011-0996
Published: 2011-04-13   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
dhcpcd before 5.2.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a hostname obtained from a DHCP message.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Roy marples -> Dhcpcd 

 References:
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/changeset/c317b39786ac6c3a939dc711db7c78cf099859fd
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675052
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/66641
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47272
http://secunia.com/advisories/44070
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/timeline
http://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/2011/0326.html
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