Security Advisory

CVE-2018-5732

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-10-09 14:17:14
Last updated 2024-09-16 18:19:36
Assigner isc
State PUBLISHED

Description

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