Bug 2525036 (CVE-2026-71401) - CVE-2026-71401 wicked: wicked: Denial of Service via integer underflow in DHCPv4 packet capture
Summary: CVE-2026-71401 wicked: wicked: Denial of Service via integer underflow in DHC...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-71401
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2526702
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Reported: 2026-08-27 16:54 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-01 08:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-27 16:54:41 UTC
An integer underflow was found in the DHCPv4 packet capture code of wicked. ni_capture_inspect_udp_header() in src/capture.c does not verify that the IP total length field (ip_len) is at least as large as the IP header length (ihl) before subtracting the header length. An unauthenticated attacker on the same network can thereby trigger an out-of-bounds read past the receive buffer in the wicked DHCPv4 client (wickedd-dhcp4), which can crash the daemon depending on the process memory layout. No information disclosure has been demonstrated. This issue affects wicked up to and including version 0.6.80.


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