CVE-2009-0692
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 25.8%EU EUVD
Stack-based buffer overflow in the script_write_params method in client/dhclient.c in ISC DHCP dhclient 4.1 before 4.1.0p1, 4.0 before 4.0.1p1, 3.1 before 3.1.2p1, 3.0, and 2.0 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted subnet-mask option.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 25.8% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0692)
- Published
- July 14, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0692 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- isc / dhcp
- isc / dhcp
- isc / dhcp
- isc / dhcp
- isc / dhcp
References
- http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-010.txt.asc
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02286083
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00003.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35785(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35829
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35830
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35831
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35832
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35841
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35849
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35850
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35851
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35880
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36457
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37342
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40551
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-12.xml
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.561471
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1833
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/410676(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:151
- http://www.osvdb.org/55819
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1136.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1154.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35668
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022548
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-803-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1891
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1796
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507717
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10758
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5941
- https://www.isc.org/downloadables/12
- https://www.isc.org/node/468(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01177.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00340.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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