Out-of-Bounds Affecting dhcp package, versions [,4.2.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DHCP-2374402
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Mar 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Mar 2013

CVE-2013-2494  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade dhcp to version 4.2.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds libdns in ISC DHCP 4.2.x before 4.2.5-P1 allows remote name servers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a dhcpd process, a related issue to CVE-2013-2266.

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