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CVE-2018-57335.9MediumCWE-190

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

ISC · ISC DHCP

Vendor fix available · Affected: ISC DHCP · Exploitation: likely to be exploited (10% or more)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

20.2%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
97th percentile
050100

Higher than 97% of scored CVEs

5.9MediumCVSS 3.0
LowMedium

DescriptionCVE.org

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 products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

  • ISC · ISC DHCPISC DHCP 4.1.0 -> 4.1-ESV-R15, 4.2.0 -> 4.2.8, 4.3.0 -> 4.3…

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Exploitation
Likely to be exploited (10% or more). EPSS gives it a 10% or higher chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public check
No public nuclei template
Vendor
ISC
Published
January 2019

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