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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-88833 EUVD-2026-98897GHSA-hg7w-cw6w-99w3

Busybox: busybox: udhcpc integer underflow in dhcp packet length calculation causes denial of service

Published Oct 13, 2026 · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A flaw was found in BusyBox's udhcpc DHCP client. When processing raw DHCP packets, the client replaces the validated packet length with an attacker-controlled value from the IP header without re-validating the minimum size. This leads to an integer underflow when subtracting header sizes, causing a subsequent memory copy with a massively oversized length. An attacker on the same network segment can send a specially crafted packet to crash the DHCP client, resulting in denial of service and loss of network connectivity.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 busybox No fix yet —
Debian 13 busybox No fix yet —
Debian 12 busybox No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 busybox +2 1:1.37.0-9.5.hum1 RHSA-2026:99577
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed busybox 1.38.0-4.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12376-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 busybox No fix yet —

Advisories 3

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