Denial of Service Vulnerability in dhcpcd's get_option Function

CVE-2014-6060 · LOW Severity

AV:A/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The get_option function in dhcpcd 4.0.0 through 6.x before 6.4.3 allows remote DHCP servers to cause a denial of service by resetting the DHO_OPTIONSOVERLOADED option in the (1) bootfile or (2) servername section, which triggers the option to be processed again.

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