Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting isc-dhcp package, versions <4.3.5-3+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
9.67% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-ISCDHCP-382229
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed16 Jan 2019

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-5733  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 isc-dhcp to version 4.3.5-3+deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream isc-dhcp package and not the isc-dhcp package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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