CVE-2018-5732

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5732  

Impact: Important Public Date: 2018-02-28 CWE: CWE-119 Bugzilla: 1549960: CVE-2018-5732 dhcp: Buffer overflow in dhclient possibly allowing code execution triggered by malicious server An out-of-bound memory access flaw was found in the way dhclient processed a DHCP response packet. A malicious DHCP server could potentially use this flaw to crash dhclient processes running on DHCP client machines via a crafted DHCP response packet.

An out-of-bound memory access flaw was found in the way dhclient processed a DHCP response packet. A malicious DHCP server could potentially use this flaw to crash dhclient processes running on DHCP client machines via a crafted DHCP response packet.

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CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 7.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (dhcp) RHSA-2018:0483 2018-03-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (dhcp) RHSA-2018:0469 2018-03-09

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 dhcp Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank ISC for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Felix Wilhelm (Google) as the original reporter.

External References