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CVE-2026-56116

dhcpcd Memory Leak DoS via IPv6 Router Advertisement Handling PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 708b4a5, contains a memory leak vulnerability in the IPv6 Router Advertisement route information handling that allows an unauthenticated same-link attacker to cause denial of service by sending crafted Router Advertisements. Attackers can repeatedly send Router Advertisements containing Route Information options with a lifetime of zero, triggering unfreed allocations in routeinfo_findalloc() that cause linear memory exhaustion and eventual daemon crash.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
NetworkConfiguration / dhcpcdaffected 10.0.7 through 10.3.2; unaffected 708b4a56bae080a5b18c2e0c4c6fbe103131a2b0

CWE

CWE-401

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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