vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2011-2717: dhcpv6: insufficient checking of DHCP options

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 27, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

The DHCPv6 client (dhcp6c) as used in the dhcpv6 project through 2011-07-25 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a hostname obtained from a DHCP message.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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