A malicious client which is allowed to send very large...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 13, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Feb 1, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jan 16, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 13, 2022
Last updated
Feb 1, 2023
A malicious client which is allowed to send very large amounts of traffic (billions of packets) to a DHCP server can eventually overflow a 32-bit reference counter, potentially causing dhcpd to crash. Affects ISC DHCP 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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