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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker on the local network can stop the bootpd daemon.

Severity: 1/4

Consequences: denial of service of service

Provenance: LAN

Means of attack: no proof of concept, no attack

Ability of attacker: expert (4/4)

Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5)

Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)

Creation date: 15/09/2009

IMPACTED PRODUCTS

– HP-UX

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

The BOOTP protocol is used by computers to retrieve their
configuration and an image to start.

An attacker on the local network can stop the bootpd daemon of
HP-UX.

Technical details are unknown.

CHARACTERISTICS

Identifiers: BID-36395, c01866324, CVE-2009-2679, HPSBUX02458,
SSRT090104, VIGILANCE-VUL-9025

http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/HP-UX-denial-of-service-of-bootpd-9025