Failure to properly bounds-check a buffer used for...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 28, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Oct 9, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jan 28, 2023
Failure to properly bounds-check a buffer used for processing DHCP options allows a malicious server (or an entity masquerading as a server) to cause a buffer overflow (and resulting crash) in dhclient by sending a response containing a specially constructed options section. Affects ISC DHCP versions 4.1.0 -> 4.1-ESV-R15, 4.2.0 -> 4.2.8, 4.3.0 -> 4.3.6, 4.4.0
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