CVE-2011-4539

dhcp: DoS due to processing certain regular expressions

Published Dec 8, 2011 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 15.2% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2519-1 isc-dhcp security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2519-2 isc-dhcp regression
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1309-1 DHCP vulnerability
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 12:09 AM
Reserved
Nov 22, 2011, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 8, 2011, 11:55 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:35 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Dec 7, 2011, 12:00 AM