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Commit 047cec59 authored by Baruch Siach's avatar Baruch Siach Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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dhcp: add upstream security fixes



CVE-2018-5732: The DHCP client incorrectly handled certain malformed
responses. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the DHCP
client to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. In the default installation, attackers would be isolated
by the dhclient AppArmor profile.

CVE-2018-5733: The DHCP server incorrectly handled reference counting. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the DHCP server
to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Both issues are fixed in version 4.4.1. But we are close to release, so
backport the fixes instead of bumping version.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBaruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
parent 00fc361b
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