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high7.5

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 cou…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
IscDhcp
from 4.2.0 through 4.2.8
from 4.3.0 through 4.3.6
Versions 4.1-esv, 4.1.0, 4.4.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Desktop
Versions 6.0, 7.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server
Versions 6.0, 7.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Aus
Versions 7.4, 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Eus
Versions 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Workstation
Versions 6.0, 7.0
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

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