[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#694650: setting "backoff_cutoff 0; " crashes dhclient with div-by-0

Kees Cook kees at debian.org
Wed Nov 28 16:43:32 UTC 2012


Package: isc-dhcp
Version: 4.2.4-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu raring

Hi,

If I set "backoff_cutoff 0;", dhclient will crash with a divide-by-zero
instead of handling the case gracefully.

The attached patch fixes this problem.

Thanks,

-Kees

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Kees Cook                                            @debian.org
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