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authorMurray <source@isc.org>2002-04-30 04:45:45 +0000
committerMurray <source@isc.org>2002-04-30 04:45:45 +0000
commitd8e4a07849835bba7f5a4df05325646a442f5dc8 (patch)
tree0851f1ccbafa3eb1857e5b229726975762c604b5
parentac411d6224d3b81387770b6a4498b51bbd6e40ec (diff)
downloadisc-dhcp-3-0-0-PATCH-1.tar.gz
Add a changelist item for the format string fix. Update the versionV3-0-0-PATCH-1
numbers to 3.0pl1. Merge a few of the spelling fixes for separate.
-rw-r--r--RELNOTES22
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index 331d2602..99426669 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution
- Version 3
- October 2, 2001
+ Version 3 Patch Level 1
+ April 30, 2002
Release Notes
@@ -23,12 +23,9 @@ that are new since version 2.0:
protocol features.
This release has been beta tested quite thorougly, and we think it is
-substantially more robust at this time than 2.0pl5. The release
-candidate is expected to be free of serious bugs, but it's called a
-release candidate because we want people to try it and find any last
-real problems before we call it done. We do not expect to add
-anything other than documentation and any remaining bug fixes to the
-3.0 release.
+substantially more robust at this time than 2.0pl5. This patch level
+release includes a fix for a serious security whole. All DHCP 3.0
+sites are urged to upgrade to 3.0pl1 (or 3.0.1RC9 or later).
The 3.0 Release Candidate 1 lease file is not backwards compatible
with the 3.0 Beta 1 lease file, so if you have to go back, you will
@@ -53,6 +50,11 @@ Murrell at BC Tel Advanced Communications. I'd like to express my
thanks to all of these good people here, both for working on the code
and for prodding me into improving it.
+ Changes since 3.0
+
+- Fix a format string vulnerability in the server that could lead to a
+ remote root compromise (discovered by NGSEC Research Team, www.ngsec.com).
+
Changes since 3.0 Release Candidate 12
- Fix a memory leak in the evaluation code.
@@ -258,7 +260,7 @@ and for prodding me into improving it.
- Clean up the memory allocation/reference history printer.
-- Support input of dotted quads and colon-seperated hex lists as
+- Support input of dotted quads and colon-separated hex lists as
attribute values in omshell.
- Fix a typo in the linux interface discovery code.
@@ -508,7 +510,7 @@ and for prodding me into improving it.
given a lease where the hardware address was correct but the client
identifier was not, resulting in a lease conflict message.
-- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-seperated
+- Fix a problem where the server could write out a colon-separated
hex list as a value for a variable, which would then not parse.
The fix is to always write strings as quoted strings, with any
non-printable characters quoted as octal escape sequences. So