CVE-2022-2928

An option refcount overflow exists in dhcpd

Medium · published October 7, 2022

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In ISC DHCP 4.4.0 -> 4.4.3, ISC DHCP 4.1-ESV-R1 -> 4.1-ESV-R16-P1, when the function option_code_hash_lookup() is called from add_option(), it increases the option's refcount field. However, there is not a corresponding call to option_dereference() to decrement the refcount field. The function add_option() is only used in server responses to lease query packets. Each lease query response calls this function for several options, so eventually, the reference counters could overflow and cause the server to abort.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00711 · 53.0th percentile
Published
2022-10-07T04:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 OCT 04:45Z
    An option refcount overflow exists in dhcpd
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