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CVE-2018-5733
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-01-16T20:29:00.753 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:00:40.717

Summary

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.

Affected products

isc — dhcp

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References

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