CVE-2019-6473 (GCVE-0-2019-6473)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-10-16 17:22
Modified
2024-09-16 22:30
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • An attacker who is able to deliberately exploit this vulnerability can cause the kea-dhcp4 server to stop executing, resulting in denial of service to clients. Only the DHCPv4 service is affected by this vulnerability.
Summary
An invalid hostname option can trigger an assertion failure in the Kea DHCPv4 server process (kea-dhcp4), causing the server process to exit. Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.5.0, 1.6.0-beta1, and 1.6.0-beta2.
References
security-officer@isc.orghttps://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2019-6473Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2019-6473Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ISC Kea Version: 1.4.0 to 1.5.0
Version: 1.6.0-beta1
Version: 1.6.0-beta2
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