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CVE-2026-56113

6.0 medium SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed

dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 5733d3c, contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability that allows unauthenticated same-link attackers to crash the daemon by sending a crafted DHCPv6 RENEW reply with RFC6603 OPTION_PD_EXCLUDE and both preferred and valid lifetimes set to zero. Attackers acting as or impersonating a DHCPv6 server can trigger dhcp6_deprecatedele() to free a delegated child address while an outer TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE iterator in dhcp6_deprecateaddrs() still holds the freed pointer, causing a use-after-free when TAILQ_REMOVE is reached.

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 6.0 · dhcpcd_projectNVD modified 2026-10-25 23:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:dhcpcd_project:dhcpcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 2