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cvelistIscCVELIST:CVE-2018-5733
HistoryFeb 28, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2018-5733 A malicious client can overflow a reference counter in ISC dhcpd

2018-02-2800:00:00
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6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.071 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.0%

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.