CVE-2011-2749: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 38.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The server in ISC DHCP 3.x and 4.x before 4.2.2, 3.1-ESV before 3.1-ESV-R3, and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon exit) via a crafted BOOTP packet.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 8.04 only; version 10.04 only; version 10.10 only; version 11.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• ISC Dhcp: version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.0.5 only; …

Published 2011-08-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.