Description

dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 5733d3c, contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability that allows unauthenticated same-link attackers to crash the daemon by sending a crafted DHCPv6 RENEW reply with RFC6603 OPTION_PD_EXCLUDE and both preferred and valid lifetimes set to zero. Attackers acting as or impersonating a DHCPv6 server can trigger dhcp6_deprecatedele() to free a delegated child address while an outer TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE iterator in dhcp6_deprecateaddrs() still holds the freed pointer, causing a use-after-free when TAILQ_REMOVE is reached.

Severity (CVSS)

Base score6
SeverityMedium
VersionCVSS 4.0
VectorCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Provided byCNA

Weaknesses

  • CWE-416 — Use After Free

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
NetworkConfigurationdhcpcd0 to <=10.3.2; 5733d3c59a5651f64357ac11c98b4f39895c8d25

References

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