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CVE-2026-56113: dhcpcd Heap Use-After-Free in dhcp6_deprecateaddrs via DHCPv6 RENEW

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-06-23 · updated 2026-10-25
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 5733d3c, contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability that allows unauthenticated same-link attackers to crash the daemon by sending a crafted DHCPv6 RENEW reply with RFC6603 OPTION_PD_EXCLUDE and both preferred and valid lifetimes set to zero. Attackers acting as or impersonating a DHCPv6 server can trigger dhcp6_deprecatedele() to free a delegated child address while an outer TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE iterator in dhcp6_deprecateaddrs() still holds the freed pointer, causing a use-after-free when TAILQ_REMOVE is reached.

Affected products

• NetworkConfiguration dhcpcd: through 10.3.2

References

• https://github.com/NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd/commit/5733d3c59a5651f64357ac11c98b4f39895c8d25
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/dhcpcd-heap-use-after-free-in-dhcp6-deprecateaddrs-via-dhcpv6-renew

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