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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-56116

dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 708b4a5, contains a memory leak vulnerability in the IPv6 Router Advertisement route information handling that...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 708b4a5, contains a memory leak vulnerability in the IPv6 Router Advertisement route information handling that allows an unauthenticated same-link attacker to cause denial of service by sending crafted Router Advertisements. Attackers can repeatedly send Router Advertisements containing Route Information options with a lifetime of zero, triggering unfreed allocations in routeinfo_findalloc() that cause linear memory exhaustion and eventual daemon crash.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:13 dhcpcd
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:10.1.0-11+deb13u3"}]}]
Debian:14 dhcpcd
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:10.3.2-4"}]}]

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