| Name | CVE-2019-11578 |
| Description | auth.c in dhcpcd before 7.2.1 allowed attackers to infer secrets by performing latency attacks. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | ELA-742-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 928056 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| dhcpcd5 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 6.0.5-2+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 6.10.1-1+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster, bullseye | 7.1.0-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 9.4.1-24~deb12u4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - dhcpcd5 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - dhcpcd5 <not-affected> (Authentication code added in later versions)
https://roy.marples.name/git/dhcpcd.git/commit/?id=7121040790b611ca3fbc400a1bbcd4364ef57233
https://roy.marples.name/git/dhcpcd.git/commit/?id=cfde89ab66cb4e5957b1c4b68ad6a9449e2784da
https://roy.marples.name/git/dhcpcd.git/commit/?id=aee631aadeef4283c8a749c1caf77823304acf5e