Bug 2526702 - CVE-2026-71401 wicked: wicked: Denial of Service via integer underflow in DHCPv4 packet capture [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-71401 wicked: wicked: Denial of Service via integer underflow in DHC...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: wicked
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Neal Gompa
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["5465b9d7-4407-4356-83aa-6...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-71401
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Reported: 2026-09-01 08:36 UTC by Vladimir Vasilev
Modified: 2026-09-01 08:36 UTC (History)
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-09-01 08:36:38 UTC
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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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