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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2023-50433 EUVD-2023-55225GHSA-rgc8-28v5-r3w9

marshall in dhcp_packet.c in simple-dhcp-server through ec976d2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a malicious…

Published Apr 29, 2024 · Updated Nov 1, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

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