What is CVE-2019-11579?

CVE-2019-11579 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dhcpcd_project Dhcpcd, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2019-04-28.

How severe is CVE-2019-11579?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Dhcpcd_project Dhcpcd

CVE-2019-11579

dhcp.c in dhcpcd before 7.2.1 contains a 1-byte read overflow with DHO_OPTSOVERLOADED.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.014 (70.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Dhcpcd_project Dhcpcd
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-11579?: CVE-2019-11579 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dhcpcd_project Dhcpcd, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2019-04-28.
How severe is CVE-2019-11579?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.