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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: isc

Published: 2019-10-09T14:17:14.251822Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:19:36.136Z

Reserved: 2018-01-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-5732

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-10-09T16:15:13.407

Modified: 2020-01-09T21:14:41.590

Link: CVE-2018-5732

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2018-02-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-5732 - Bugzilla