Bug 2491824 (CVE-2026-56116) - CVE-2026-56116 dhcpcd: dhcpcd: Denial of Service via IPv6 Router Advertisement memory leak
Summary: CVE-2026-56116 dhcpcd: dhcpcd: Denial of Service via IPv6 Router Advertisemen...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-56116
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2492036 2492037
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Reported: 2026-06-23 17:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-23 22:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-23 17:03:55 UTC
dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 708b4a5, contains a memory leak vulnerability in the IPv6 Router Advertisement route information handling that allows an unauthenticated same-link attacker to cause denial of service by sending crafted Router Advertisements. Attackers can repeatedly send Router Advertisements containing Route Information options with a lifetime of zero, triggering unfreed allocations in routeinfo_findalloc() that cause linear memory exhaustion and eventual daemon crash.


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