CVE-2018-20679 (GCVE-0-2018-20679)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-09 16:00 – Updated: 2025-06-09 15:26
VLAI?
Summary
An issue was discovered in BusyBox before 1.30.0. An out of bounds read in udhcp components (consumed by the DHCP server, client, and relay) allows a remote attacker to leak sensitive information from the stack by sending a crafted DHCP message. This is related to verification in udhcp_get_option() in networking/udhcp/common.c that 4-byte options are indeed 4 bytes.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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