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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-42512 EUVD-2026-26357GHSA-6r9j-w82p-v45p

Remotely triggerable out-of-bounds heap write in dhclient

Published Apr 30, 2026 · Updated May 1, 2026 · Assigned by freebsd

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
FreeBSD FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE – < p7, 14.4-RELEASE – < p3, 14.3-RELEASE – < p12, 13.5-RELEASE – < p13 p7

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