CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-0997
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-04-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
dhclient in ISC DHCP 3.0.x through 4.2.x before 4.2.1-P1, 3.1-ESV before 3.1-ESV-R1, and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a hostname obtained from a DHCP message, as demonstrated by a hostname that is provided to dhclient-script.
Affected configurations
• isc dhcp 3.0
• isc dhcp 3.0.1
• isc dhcp 3.0.2
• isc dhcp 3.0.3
• isc dhcp 3.0.4
• isc dhcp 3.0.5
• isc dhcp 3.0.6
• isc dhcp 3.1-esv
• isc dhcp 3.1.0
• isc dhcp 3.1.1
• isc dhcp 3.1.2
• isc dhcp 3.1.3
• isc dhcp 4.1-esv
• isc dhcp 4.2.0
• isc dhcp 4.2.1
• debian debian linux 5.0
• debian debian linux 6.0
• debian debian linux 7.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057888.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058279.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44037 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44048 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44089 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44090 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44103 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44127 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44180 Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-06.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025300 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.593345 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2216 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2217 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/107886 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:073 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/71493 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0428.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0840.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47176 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1108-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0879 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0886 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0909 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0915 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0926 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0965 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1000 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689832 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66580 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12812 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37623/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/advisories/cve-2011-0997 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057888.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058279.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44037 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44048 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44089 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44090 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44103 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44127 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44180 Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-06.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025300 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.593345 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2216 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2217 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/107886 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:073 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/71493 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0428.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0840.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47176 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1108-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0879 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0886 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0909 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0915 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0926 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0965 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1000 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689832 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66580 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12812 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37623/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/advisories/cve-2011-0997 Patch, Vendor Advisory