CVE-2018-15688 (GCVE-0-2018-15688)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-26 14:00 – Updated: 2025-06-09 15:55
VLAI?
Title
Out-of-Bounds write in systemd-networkd dhcpv6 option handling
Summary
A buffer overflow vulnerability in the dhcp6 client of systemd allows a malicious dhcp6 server to overwrite heap memory in systemd-networkd. Affected releases are systemd: versions up to and including 239.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CWE
- dhcp6_option_append_ia() contained an incorrect buffer size calculation.
Assigner
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Credits
Felix Wilhelm from the Google Security Team
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