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HIGHCVE-2026-42512Published Modified CNA freebsd

CVE-2026-42512: Remotely triggerable out-of-bounds heap write in dhclient

As dhclient is building an environment to pass to dhclient-script, it may need to resize the array of string pointers. The code which expands the array incorrectly calculates its new size when requesting memory, resulting in a heap buffer overrun. A specially crafted packet can cause dhclient to overrun its buffer of environment entries. This can result in a crash, but it may be possible to leverage this bug to achieve remote code execution.

Metrics

CVSS v3.1
8.1
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
p12
Affected Products
1

Fix available

p12p13p3p7
Affected packages
  • FreeBSD / FreeBSD
    < p7 (from 15.0-RELEASE) · < p3 (from 14.4-RELEASE) · < p12 (from 14.3-RELEASE) · < p13 (from 13.5-RELEASE)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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