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dhcpcd -- remote code execution/denial of service

Affected packages
		dhcpcd	<	6.9.1

Details

VuXML ID	092156c9-04d7-11e6-b1ce-002590263bf5
Discovery	2015-06-19
Entry	2016-04-17

MITRE reports:

The get_option function in dhcp.c in dhcpcd before 6.2.0, as used in dhcpcd 5.x in Android before 5.1 and other products, does not validate the relationship between length fields and the amount of data, which allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a large length value of an option in a DHCPACK message.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2014-7912
URL	http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/info/d71cfd8aa203bffe