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authorThomas Markwalder <tmark@isc.org>2022-08-23 07:28:48 -0400
committerThomas Markwalder <tmark@isc.org>2022-08-23 07:28:48 -0400
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[#253] Updated RELNOTES
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@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Distribution
- Version 4.1-ESV-R16-P1
- 26 May 2021
+ Version 4.1-ESV-R16-P2
+ ?? ???? 2022
+ Release Notes
- Release Notes
-
- NEW FEATURES
-
-Version 4.1-ESV-R16-P1 is a security release of an extended support version
-(ESV) fixing possible buffer overwrite error in client and server
-while parsing haxadecimal literals in lease file. ESVs are intended for
-users who have longer upgrade constraints. Please see our web page:
+Version 4.1-ESV-R16-P2 is a security release of an extended support version
+(ESV) fixing possible reference counter overflow in the server while adding
+options to lease query responses. ESVs are intended for users who have longer
+upgrade constraints. Please see our web page:
http://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/
@@ -78,9 +75,10 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
Changes since 4.1-ESV-R16-P1
! Corrected a reference count leak that occurs when the server builds
- responses to leasequery packets.
+ responses to leasequery packets. Thanks to VictorV of Cyber Kunlun
+ Lab for reporting the issue.
[Gitblab #253]
- CVE: <TBD>
+ CVE: CVS-2022-2928
Change1 since 4.1-ESV-R16
@@ -206,7 +204,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
"Run out of memory." on the standard error and exists with status 1.
[ISC-Bugs #32744]
-- The linux interface discovery code has been modified to use getifaddrs()
+- The linux interface discovery code has been modified to use getifaddrs()
as is done for BSD and OS-X. Prior to this the code would only recognize
the first address on an interface and thereby omit vlans.
Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Redhat, Marius Tomaschewski at SUSE, and Wei
@@ -409,7 +407,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
[ISC-Bugs #40754]
[ISC-Bugs #40823]
-- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server's
+- Corrected compilation errors that prohibited building the server's
ATF unit tests when failover is disabled.
[ISC-Bugs #40372]
@@ -549,7 +547,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
[ISC-Bugs #21235]
- Write out the DUID server id on startup in all cases, previously if it
- was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
+ was read in from server-duid option in the config or lease files for
DHCPv4 it would not be written to the new lease file.
[ISC-Bugs #37791]
@@ -655,8 +653,8 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
patch.
[ISC-Bugs #36653]
-- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
- Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
+- Corrected rate limiting checks for bad packet logging. Thanks to Tobias
+ Stoeckmann working with the OpenBSD project who spotted the issue and
provided the patch.
[ISC-Bugs #36897]
@@ -799,7 +797,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- Tidy up several small tickets.
Correct parsing of DUID from config file, previously the LL type
was put in the wrong place in the DUID string.
- [ISC-Bugs #20962]
+ [ISC-Bugs #20962]
Add code to parse "do-forward-updates" as well as "do-forward-update"
Thanks to Jiri Popelka at Red Hat.
[ISC-Bugs #31328]
@@ -975,7 +973,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
and patches.
[ISC-Bugs #23833]
-- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
+- Parsing unquoted base64 strings improved. Parser now properly handles
strings that contain reserved names. [ISC-Bugs #23048]
- Modify the nak_lease function to make some attempts to find a
@@ -1146,7 +1144,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to configure.ac to avoid rebuilding
configuration files. [ISC-Bugs #24107]
-
+
! Add a check for a null pointer before calling the regexec function.
Without this check we could, under some circumstances, pass
a null pointer to the regexec function causing it to segfault.
@@ -1159,9 +1157,9 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- Compilation fix for gcc 4.5 or newer in server/ddns.c
[ISC-Bugs #24973]
-- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
- configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
- to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
+- Strict checks for content of domain-name DHCPv4 option can now be
+ configured during compilation time. Even though RFC2132 does not allow
+ to store more than one domain in domain-name option, such behavior is
now enabled by default, but this may change some time in the future.
See ACCEPT_LIST_IN_DOMAIN_NAME define in includes/site.h.
[ISC-Bugs #24167]
@@ -1212,10 +1210,10 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- 'dhclient' no longer waits a random interval after first starting up to
begin in the INIT state. This conforms to RFC 2131, but elects not to
implement a 'SHOULD' direction in section 4.1. [ISC-Bugs #19660]
-
-- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
- before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
- versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
+
+- Added 'initial-delay' parameter that specifies maximum amount of time
+ before client goes to the INIT state. The default value is 0. In previous
+ versions of the code client could wait up to 5 seconds. The old behavior
may be restored by using 'initial-delay 5;' in the client config file.
[ISC-Bugs #19660]
@@ -1374,7 +1372,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
[ISC-Bugs #20107] clarify description of ia-pd and ia-prefix.
[ISC-Bugs #20245] clarify editing the failover state in a lease file to put
a server into the PARTNER-DOWN state.
-
+
- 'get-host-names true;' now also works even if 'use-host-decl-names true;'
was also configured. The nature of this repair also fixes another
error; the host-name supplied by a client is no longer overridden by a
@@ -1385,7 +1383,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- The .TH tag for the dhcp-options manpage was typo repaired
thanks to a report from jidanni and the Debian package maintenance
team. [ISC-Bugs #21676] {Debian Bug#563613}
-
+
- More documentation changes - primarily to put the options in the dhclient
and dhcpd man pages into the standard form. Thanks in part to a patch
from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
@@ -1408,7 +1406,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
in dhcpd - based on a patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.
[ISC-Bugs #20039] Correct some error messages in dhcpd.c
[ISC-Bugs #20070] Better range check on values when creating a DHCID.
- [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
+ [ISC-Bugs #20198] Avoid writing past the end of the field when adding
overly long file or server names to a packet and add a log message
if the configuration supplied overly long names for these fields.
Thanks to Martin Pala.
@@ -1462,10 +1460,10 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
write() call at just the same time as the other server killed the
connection and caused an uncaught SIGPIPE signal which caused the
OS to kill the server.
- This is a minor security issue. It is a security issue as it can
+ This is a minor security issue. It is a security issue as it can
cause a server to stop. It is minor as the attacker would need to
- be able to interrupt traffic between the partners in a failover
- pair for max-response-delay seconds at will - in which case the
+ be able to interrupt traffic between the partners in a failover
+ pair for max-response-delay seconds at will - in which case the
defender has bigger problems than the DHCP server being killed.
Using the NIST CVSS security vulnerability rating system this
issue scored 1.2, meaning it is not a major risk for users.
@@ -1780,7 +1778,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
This is useful if you want not only to release a lease, but also make
it available for reuse right away. Hat tip to Christof Chen.
-- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
+- Fixed definition of the iaaddr hash functions to use the correct
functions when referencing and dereferencing memory.
- Some definitions not in phase with the IANA registry were updated.
@@ -1863,7 +1861,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- When server is configured with options that it overrides, a warning is
issued when the configuration file is read, rather than at the time the
option is overridden. This was important, because the warning was given
- every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
+ every time the option was overridden, which could create a lot of
unnecessary logging.
- Fixed a compilation problems on platforms that define a value for FDDI,
@@ -1879,7 +1877,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- Fix startup error messages to report a missing "subnet6 declaration", rather
than a missing "subnet declaration", when running as a DHCPv6 server.
-- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
+- DHCPv6 client timestamp in DUID was based on the year 1970 rather
than the year 2000.
- Warn when attempting to use a hardware parameter in DHCPv6.
@@ -1897,12 +1895,12 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- dhc6_lease_destroy() and dhc6_ia_destroy() now set lease and IA pointers
to NULL after freeing, to prevent subsequent accesses to freed memory.
-- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
+- The DHCPv6 server would not send the preference option unless the
client requested it, via the ORO. This has been fixed, so the DHCPv6
server will always send the preference value if it is configured.
-- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
- incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
+- When addresses were passed as hints to the server in an IA, they were
+ incorrectly handled, sometimes being treated as an error. Now the
server will treat these as hints and ignore them if it cannot supply
a requested address.
@@ -1940,8 +1938,8 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
to put dhcpd.leases and dhclient.leases in /usr/local/var/db, which no
one ever has.
-- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
- response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
+- Regression fix for bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in
+ response to a SOLICIT but would not return the address in response
to a REQUEST.
- A bug was fixed where the DHCPv6 server puts the NoAddrsAvail status
@@ -1973,7 +1971,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- Eliminated a spurious error message from the client
-- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
+- A number of bugs with the internal handling of lease state on the
server have been fixed. Some of these could cause server crashes.
- The peer_wants_leases() changes pulled up from 3.1.0 were corrected,
@@ -1988,13 +1986,13 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
Changes since 4.0.0a3
-- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
+- The DHCP server no longer requires a "ddns-update-style" statement,
and now defaults to "none", which means DNS updates are disabled.
- Log messages when failover peer names mismatch have been improved to
point out the problem.
-- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
+- Bug where server advertised a IPv6 address in response to a SOLICIT
but would not return the address in response to a REQUEST. Thanks to
Dennis Kou for finding the bug.
@@ -2007,7 +2005,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- Compilation with DLPI and -Werror has been repaired.
-- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
+- Error in decoding IA_NA option if multiple interfaces are present
fixed by Marcus Goller.
- DHCPv6 server Confirm message processing has been enhanced - it no
@@ -2033,7 +2031,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- Fixed file descriptor leak on listen failure. Thanks to Tom Clark.
- Bug in server configuration parser caused server to get stuck on
- startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
+ startup for certain bad pool declarations. Thanks to Guillaume
Knispel for the bug report and fix.
- Code cleaned to remove warnings reported by "gcc -Wall".
@@ -2049,8 +2047,8 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
the DHCPv6 client configuration. 'send dhcp6.oro' is no longer
necessary.
-- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
- zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
+- Bug fixed where configuration file parsing did not work with
+ zero-length options; this made it impossible to set the
rapid-commit option.
- Bogus messages about host records with IPv4 fixed-addresses being of
@@ -3434,7 +3432,7 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
had been done for a client with no name, even though no update had
been done, and then when the client's lease expired the deletion of
that nonexistant record would time out because the name was the null
- string.
+ string.
- Clean up the omshell, dhcpctl and omapi man pages a bit.
@@ -3957,7 +3955,6 @@ dhcp-users@lists.isc.org.
- When we get a bogus state lease binding state transition, don't do
the transition.
-
Changes since 3.0 Beta 2 Patchlevel 12