[SA21591] Honeyd ARP Denial of Service Vulnerability

TITLE:
Honeyd ARP Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21591

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Honeyd 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/8081/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Honeyd, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when
processing ARP packets.

Successful exploitation crashes the daemon.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 1.5b.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5b.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.honeyd.org/release.php?version=1.5b

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