CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-4539

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2011-12-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-12-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

dhcpd in ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.2.3-P1 and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R4 does not properly handle regular expressions in dhcpd.conf, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted request packet.

Affected configurations

• isc dhcp 4.0 • isc dhcp 4.0.0 • isc dhcp 4.0.1 • isc dhcp 4.0.2 • isc dhcp 4.0.3 • isc dhcp 4.1.1 • isc dhcp 4.1.2 • isc dhcp 4.2.0 • isc dhcp 4.2.1 • isc dhcp 4.2.2 • isc dhcp 4.2.3 • isc dhcp 4.1-esv • canonical ubuntu linux 11.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.10 • debian debian linux 6.0 • debian debian linux 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References