vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-7759-1 (CVE-2019-6473): Kea DHCP vulnerabilities

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 16, 2019
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Sep 24, 2025

Description

An invalid hostname option can trigger an assertion failure in the Kea DHCPv4 server process (kea-dhcp4), causing the server process to exit. Versions affected: 1.4.0 to 1.5.0, 1.6.0-beta1, and 1.6.0-beta2.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-kea-adminubuntu-pro-upgrade-kea-commonubuntu-pro-upgrade-kea-dhcp-ddns-serverubuntu-pro-upgrade-kea-dhcp4-serverubuntu-pro-upgrade-kea-dhcp6-server
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