Secunia Security Advisory - Mu Security research team has reported some vulnerabilities in Dibbler, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Dibbler Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26876
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26876/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
>From local network
SOFTWARE:
Dibbler 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/15768/
DESCRIPTION:
Mu Security research team has reported some vulnerabilities in
Dibbler, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).
The vulnerabilities are caused due to input validation errors when
processing packets and can be exploited to crash the service via
specially crafted packets with e.g. options with large lengths,
invalid lengths, or malformed IA_NA options in a REBIND message.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 0.6.0. Prior versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.6.1.
http://klub.com.pl/dhcpv6/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Mu Security research team
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065892.html
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