Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting dhclient package, versions <12:4.2.5-58.el7_4.3


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
29.14% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-DHCLIENT-4838738
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Feb 2018

Introduced: 28 Feb 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 dhclient to version 12:4.2.5-58.el7_4.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:0483.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dhclient package and not the dhclient package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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 Base Scores

version 3.1