CVE-2019-6470

Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
0.3%
top 50.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 1
Latest updateMay 24

Description

There had existed in one of the ISC BIND libraries a bug in a function that was used by dhcpd when operating in DHCPv6 mode. There was also a bug in dhcpd relating to the use of this function per its documentation, but the bug in the library function prevented this from causing any harm. All releases of dhcpd from ISC contain copies of this, and other, BIND libraries in combinations that have been tested prior to release and are known to not present issues like this. Some third-party packagers o

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages8 packages

NVDisc/dhcpd< 4.4.1
CVEListV5multiple,_non-isc/dhcpdbuilds not wholly from ISC source < 4.4.1
Debianisc-dhcp< 4.4.1-2+2
NVDopensuse/leap15.0, 15.1+1

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8, 7.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-w4w8-43xj-r4wr: There had existed in one of the ISC BIND libraries a bug in a function that was used by dhcpd when operating in DHCPv6 mode2022-05-24
CVEList
dhcpd: use-after-free error leads crash in IPv6 mode when using mismatched BIND libraries2019-11-01
OSV
CVE-2019-6470: There had existed in one of the ISC BIND libraries a bug in a function that was used by dhcpd when operating in DHCPv6 mode2019-11-01

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Microsoft
dhcpd: use-after-free error leads crash in IPv6 mode when using mismatched BIND libraries2019-11-12
Ubuntu
DHCP vulnerability2019-05-13
Debian
CVE-2019-6470: isc-dhcp - There had existed in one of the ISC BIND libraries a bug in a function that was ...2019
Red Hat
dhcp: double-deletion of the released addresses in the dhcpv6 code leading to crash and possible DoS2018-07-14

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-6470 dhcp: double-deletion of the released addresses in the dhcpv6 code leading to crash and possible DoS [fedora-all]2019-05-10
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-6470 dhcp: double-deletion of the released addresses in the dhcpv6 code leading to crash and possible DoS2019-05-10
CVE-2019-6470 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | There had existed in one of the ISC | cvebase.io