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Re: ISC DHCP Client [3.0.x to 4.2.x] Arbitrary Command Execution (CVE-2011-0997)


From: coderman <coderman () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:19:18 -0700

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:40 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
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Otherwise if a valid dhcp server hands you foo.bar.baz.example.com your hostname
just became foobarbazexamplecom - whoops.


a DHCP server should not reply with a FQDN as hostname.

hostname 'foo' at domainname 'bar.baz.example.com' is legit though...

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