Out-of-Bounds Affecting dhcp-common package, versions <12:4.2.5-58.el7_4.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-DHCPCOMMON-4792563
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Feb 2018

Introduced: 28 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-5732  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 dhcp-common 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 dhcp-common package and not the dhcp-common package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Failure to properly bounds-check a buffer used for processing DHCP options allows a malicious server (or an entity masquerading as a server) to cause a buffer overflow (and resulting crash) in dhclient by sending a response containing a specially constructed options section. Affects ISC DHCP versions 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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