[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#717158: [Secure-testing-team] Bug#717158: network-manager: ignores settings from dhclient.conf and requests insecure properties

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net
Thu Jul 18 21:30:40 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 21:15 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> dhclient.conf only controls which options are requested from the
> server, the client will process unsolicited options anyway.
> Therefore, changing dhclient.conf adds zero additional security.
> 
> Upstream provided means to fix this in ISCP DHCP 4.2.5, but it
> requires adjustments to our DHCP response handling script.
I see... how does this work than? Can I really choose which settings I
want and which not... and does this fix the problem then at both places,
dhcp itself and NM?


Cheers,
Chris.
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