CVE-2022-2928

MEDIUM

ISC DHCP 4.4.0-4.4.3 and 4.1-ESV-R1-4.1-ESV-R16-P1 - Denial of Service via Reference Counter Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In ISC DHCP 4.4.0 -> 4.4.3, ISC DHCP 4.1-ESV-R1 -> 4.1-ESV-R16-P1, when the function option_code_hash_lookup() is called from add_option(), it increases the option's refcount field. However, there is not a corresponding call to option_dereference() to decrement the refcount field. The function add_option() is only used in server responses to lease query packets. Each lease query response calls this function for several options, so eventually, the reference counters could overflow and cause the server to abort.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 22.5%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
fedoraproject/fedora 35
fedoraproject/fedora 36
fedoraproject/fedora 37
isc/dhcp 4.1-esv r1 (29 CPE variants)
isc/dhcp 4.4.0 - 4.4.3
Published Oct 07, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026