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CVE-2026-42512

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CVE-2026-42512

Published: Apr 30, 2026

Modified: May 1, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

FreeBSD

FreeBSD

affected
15.0-RELEASE - < p7
affected
14.4-RELEASE - < p3
affected
14.3-RELEASE - < p12
affected
13.5-RELEASE - < p13

Weaknesses (CWE)

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