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ALPINE-CVE-2026-56117

dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 78ea09e, contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability in the control socket handling within src/control.c that...

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dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 78ea09e, contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability in the control socket handling within src/control.c that allows local unprivileged attackers to trigger memory corruption when privilege separation is disabled. Attackers can connect to the control socket and send a privileged command such as -x, causing control_recvdata() to free the client object while the same READ+HANGUP event subsequently reaches control_hangup() with the stale pointer, resulting in a use-after-free condition exploitable in deployments using --disable-privsep or where privsep initialization has failed with the control socket operating in mode 0666.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.23 dhcpcd
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"10.5.2-r0"}]}]
Alpine:v3.24 dhcpcd
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"10.5.2-r0"}]}]

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