Ali Norouzi discovered that Kea DHCP did not properly handle maliciously crafted messages over configured API sockets and HA listeners. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Kea DHCP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Ali Norouzi discovered that Kea DHCP did not properly handle maliciously crafted messages over configured API sockets and HA listeners. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Kea DHCP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Ali Norouzi discovered that Kea DHCP did not properly handle maliciously crafted messages over configured API sockets and HA listeners. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Kea DHCP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Ali Norouzi discovered that Kea DHCP did not properly handle maliciously crafted messages over configured API sockets and HA listeners. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Kea DHCP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
After a standard system update you may need to restart Kea DHCP server instances to make all the necessary changes.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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