Description
A vulnerability in the DHCP version 4 (DHCPv4) server feature of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a crash of the dhcpd process, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability exists because certain DHCPv4 messages are improperly validated when they are processed by an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed DHCPv4 message to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a crash of the dhcpd process. While the dhcpd process is restarting, which may take up to approximately two minutes, DHCPv4 server services are unavailable on the affected device. This could temporarily prevent network access to clients that join the network during that time period. Note: Only the dhcpd process crashes and eventually restarts automatically. The router does not reload.
Published: 2021-09-09
Score: 5.8 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-21387 A vulnerability in the DHCP version 4 (DHCPv4) server feature of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a crash of the dhcpd process, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability exists because certain DHCPv4 messages are improperly validated when they are processed by an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed DHCPv4 message to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a crash of the dhcpd process. While the dhcpd process is restarting, which may take up to approximately two minutes, DHCPv4 server services are unavailable on the affected device. This could temporarily prevent network access to clients that join the network during that time period. Note: Only the dhcpd process crashes and eventually restarts automatically. The router does not reload.
History

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Cisco Asr 9000v-v2 Asr 9001 Asr 9006 Asr 9010 Asr 9901 Asr 9902 Asr 9903 Asr 9904 Asr 9906 Asr 9910 Asr 9912 Asr 9922 Ios Xr Ios Xrv 9000 Ncs540-12z20g-sys-a Ncs540-12z20g-sys-d Ncs540-24z8q2c-m Ncs540-24z8q2c-sys Ncs540-28z4c-sys-a Ncs540-28z4c-sys-d Ncs540-acc-sys Ncs540x-12z16g-sys-a Ncs540x-12z16g-sys-d Ncs540x-16z4g8q2c-a Ncs540x-16z4g8q2c-d Ncs540x-acc-sys Ncs 5001 Ncs 5002 Ncs 5011 Ncs 5501 Ncs 5501-se Ncs 5502 Ncs 5502-se Ncs 5508 Ncs 5516 Ncs 560-4 Ncs 560-7
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published:

Updated: 2024-11-07T22:00:23.958Z

Reserved: 2021-06-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-34737

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T00:19:48.091Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-09-09T05:15:11.963

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:11:05.107

Link: CVE-2021-34737

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