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CVE-2011-4539
dhcpd in ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.2.3-P1 and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R4 does not properly handle regular expressions in dhcpd.conf, which…
Medium5.0EPSS 15.2%
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Description
dhcpd in ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.2.3-P1 and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R4 does not properly handle regular expressions in dhcpd.conf, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted request packet.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 15.2% · top 3.2% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (13)
- MDVSA-2011:182 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 47153 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-16976 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-1309-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2011:1318 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- isc-dhcp-dhcpd-regex-dos(71680) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 47178 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/advisories/cve-2011-4539 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-16981 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-2519 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1026393 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- GLSA-201301-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 50971 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .