CVE-2010-3611

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-11-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ISC DHCP server 4.0 before 4.0.2, 4.1 before 4.1.2, and 4.2 before 4.2.0-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a DHCPv6 packet containing a Relay-Forward message without an address in the Relay-Forward link-address field.

Affected products

ISC DHCP: 4.0, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.1-b1, 4.0.1-rc1, 4.1.0 (+11)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050766.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051287.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00005.html
http://osvdb.org/68999
http://secunia.com/advisories/42082
http://secunia.com/advisories/42345
http://secunia.com/advisories/42407
http://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/advisories/cve-2010-3611
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102047
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:226
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0923.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44615

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