ISC DHCP 4.0.2 is now available

Shawn Routhier sar at isc.org
Tue Jan 26 19:03:03 UTC 2010


ISC DHCP 4.0.2 is now available for download.

This is the production release of ISC DHCP 4.0.2, a maintenance release
which contains a number of bug fixes.  These fixes include two that
address security issues, both of which were included in previous 4.0.2
betas.  For details on these and other fixes see the list of changes
appended to the end of this message.  For a complete list of changes
from any previous release, please consult the RELNOTES file within the
source distribution, or on our website:

     https://www.isc.org/downloadables/12

This release, and its OpenPGP-signatures are available now from:

     ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/dhcp-4.0.2.tar.gz
     ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/dhcp-4.0.2.tar.gz.sha512.asc
     ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/dhcp-4.0.2.tar.gz.sha256.asc
     ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/dhcp-4.0.2.tar.gz.sha1.asc

ISC's Release Signing Key can be obtained at:

     http://www.isc.org/about/openpgp/

                         Changes since 4.0.2rc1

- None

                         Changes since 4.0.2b3

- When using 'ignore client-updates;', the FQDN returned to the client
   is no longer truncated to one octet.

                         Changes since 4.0.2b2

- Fix test in dhcp_interface_signal_handler to check that the inner
   handler has a signal_handler before calling it.

- ./configure now checks to ensure the intX_t and u_intX_t types are
   defined, correcting a compilation failure when using Sun's
   compiler.

- Modified the handling of a connection to avoid releasing the omapi io
   object for the connection while it is still in use.  One symptom from
   this error was a segfault when a failover secondary attempted to
   connect to the failover primary if their clocks were not
   synchronized.

- Both host and subnet6 configuration groups are now included whether a
   fixed-address6 (DHCPv6) is in use or not.  Host scoped configuration
   takes precedence.  This fixes two bugs, one where host scoped
   configuration would not be included from a non-fixed-address6 host
   record, and the equal and opposite bug where subnet6 scoped
   configuration would not be used when over-riding values were not
   present in a matching fixed-address6 host configuration.

                         Changes since 4.0.2b1

- Fixed a bug where an OMAPI socket disconnection message would not
   result in scheduling a failover reconnection, if the link had not
   negotiated a failover connect yet (e.g.: connection refused, asynch
   socket connect() timeouts).

- A bug was fixed that caused the 'conflict-done' state to fail to be
   parsed in failover state records.

! A stack overflow vulnerability was fixed in dhclient that could allow
   remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system,
   or simply terminate the client, by providing an over-long subnet-mask
   option.  CERT VU#410676 - CVE-2009-0692

- Versions 3.0.x syntax with multiple name->code option definitions is
   now supported.  Note that, similarly to 3.0.x, for by-code lookups
   only the last option definition is used.

- Fixed a bug where a time difference of greater than 60 seconds
   between a failover pair could cause the primary to crash on contact
   with the secondary.  Thanks to a patch from Steinar Haug.

- Don't look for IPv6 interfaces on Linux when running in DHCPv4 mode.
   Thanks to patches from Matthew Newton and David Cantrell.

- Secondary servers in a failover pair will now perform ddns removals if
   they had performed ddns updates on a lease that is expiring, or was
   released through the primary.  As part of the same fix, stale binding
   scopes will now be removed if a change in identity of a lease's
   active client is detected, rather than simply if a lease is noticed
   to have expired (which it may have expired without a failover server
   noticing in some situations).

- A patch supplied by David Cantrell at RedHat was applied that detects
   invalid calling parameters given to the ns_name_ntop() function.
   Specifically, it detects if the caller passed a pointer and size pair
   that causes the pointer to integer-wrap past zero.

! Fixed a fenceposting bug when a client had two host records
   configured, one using 'uid' and the other using 'hardware ethernet'.
   CVE-2009-1892

                         Changes since 4.0.1

- Remove infinite loop in token_print_indent_concat().

- Validate the argument to the -p option.

- The notorious 'option <unknown> ... larger than buffer' log line,
   which is seen in some malformed DHCP client packets, was modified.
   It now logs the universe name, and does not log the length values
   (which are bogus corruption read from the packet anyway).  It also
   carries a hopefully more useful explanation.

- Suppress spurious warnings from configure about --datarootdir

- A bug was fixed that caused the server not to answer some valid
   Solicit and Request packets, if the dynamic range covering any
   requested addresses had been deleted from configuration.

- Update the code to deal with GCC 4.3.  This included two sets of
   changes.  The first is to the configuration files to include the use
   of AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.  The second is to deal with return
   values that were being ignored.

- Using reserved leases no longer results in 'lease with binding state
   free not on its queue' error messages, thanks to a patch from Frode
   Nordahl.

- DDNS removal routines were updated so that the DHCID is not removed
   until the client has been deprived of all A and AAAA records (not
   only the last one of either of those).  This resolves a bug where
   dual stack clients would not be able to regain their names after
   either expiration event.

- Two uninitialized stack structures are now memset to zero, thanks to
   patch from David Cantrell at Red Hat.

- Fixed a cosmetic bug where pretty-printing valid domain-search
   options would result in an erroneous error log message ('garbage in
   format string').

- A bug in DLPI packet transmission (Solaris, HP/UX) that caused the
   server to stop receiving packets is fixed.  The same fix also means
   that the MAC address will no longer appear 'bogus' on DLPI-based
   systems.

- The update-conflict-detection feature would leave an FQDN updated
   without a DHCID (still currently implemented as a TXT RR).  This
   would cause later expiration or release events to fail to remove the
   domain name.  The feature now also inserts the client's up to date
   DHCID record, so records may safely be removed at expiration or
   release time.  Thanks to a patch submitted by Christof Chen.

- Memory leak in the load_balance_mine() function is fixed.  This would
   leak ~20-30 octets per DHCPDISCOVER packet while failover was in use
   and in normal state.

- Various compilation fixes have been included for the memory related
   DEBUG #defines in includes/site.h.

- Fixed Linux client script 'unary operator expected' errors with
   DHCPv6.

- Fixed setting hostname in Linux hosts that require hostname argument
   to be double-quoted.  Also allow server-provided hostname to
   override hostnames 'localhost' and '(none)'.

- Added client support for setting interface MTU and metric, thanks to
   Roy "UberLord" Marples <roy at marples.name>.

- Fixed failover reconnection retry code to continue to retry to
   reconnect rather than restarting the listener.

- Compilation on Solaris with USE_SOCKETS defined in includes/site.h has
   been repaired.  Other USE_ overrides should work better.

- A check for the local flavor of IFNAMSIZ had a broken 'else'
   condition, that probably still resulted in the correct behaviour (but
   wouldn't use a larger defined value provided by the host OS).




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