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dhcpcd -- remote code execution/denial of service

Affected packages
dhcpcd < 6.10.2

Details

VuXML ID 6ec9f210-0404-11e6-9aee-bc5ff4fb5ea1
Discovery 2016-01-22
Entry 2016-04-17

MITRE reports:

The print_option function in dhcp-common.c in dhcpcd through 6.9.1, as used in dhcp.c in dhcpcd 5.x in Android before 5.1 and other products, misinterprets the return value of the snprintf function, which allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted message.

References

CVE Name CVE-2014-7913
FreeBSD PR ports/208702
URL http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/info/528541c4c619520e