CVE detail
CVE-2018-5733
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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Buzz score components · mention 6.9 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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Evidence
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- Remotely Exploitable Flaws Patched in DHCPSecurityWeek
Updates released by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) software patch two remotely exploitable vulnerabilities discovered by a researcher at Google.
newswww.securityweek.comMar 1, 2018, 1:34 PM
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