dhcp: stack-based buffer overflow when parsing statements with colon-separated hex digits in config or lease files in dhcpd and dhclient

A flaw was found in the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP. There is a discrepancy between the code that handles encapsulated option information in leases transmitted "on the wire" and the code which reads and parses lease information after it has been written to disk storage. This flaw...

CVE-2021-25217

In ISC DHCP 4.1-ESV-R1 - 4.1-ESV-R16, ISC DHCP 4.4.0 - 4.4.2 Other branches of ISC DHCP i.e., releases in the 4.0.x series or lower and releases in the 4.3.x series are beyond their End-of-Life EOL and no longer supported by ISC. From inspection it is clear that the defect is also present in...