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.
Higher than 97% of scored CVEs
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
CoverageNo articles yet
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References
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CVE recordcve.org
- Weakness CWE-190cwe.mitre.org
- Vendor advisoryaccess.redhat.com
- Vendor advisorydebian.org
- Vendor advisoryusn.ubuntu.com
- Vendor advisoryaccess.redhat.com
- Vendor advisoryusn.ubuntu.com
- kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01567kb.isc.org
- securityfocus.com/bid/103188securityfocus.com
- securitytracker.com/id/1040437securitytracker.com
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250425-0010security.netapp.com
- Mailing listlists.debian.org