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

[Ryan Sears <rdsears () mtu edu>]

Hey guys,

It was recently discovered (NOT by myself) that the ISC dhclient was vulnerable to certain shell metacharacters in the 
hostname parameter specified by *any* DHCP server, causing it to potentially run arbitrary commands as root. I haven't 
seen anything else on it here, so I figured I'd make everyone aware. 

There's only one real phrase that comes to mind => WTF?

https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/advisories/cve-2011-0997

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DHCP-client-allows-shell-command-injection-1222805.html

Ryan

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