CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-50433

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-04-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2024-04-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-843

Description

marshall in dhcp_packet.c in simple-dhcp-server through ec976d2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a malicious DHCP packet. The crash is caused by a type confusion bug that results in a large memory allocation; when this memory allocation fails the DHCP server will crash.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type weakness

References