CVE-2012-3570 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2012-3570?

CVE-2012-3570 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 25 Jul 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in ISC DHCP 4.2.x before 4.2.4-P1, when DHCPv6 mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and daemon exit) via a crafted client identifier parameter.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3570?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Isc Dhcp.

How do I fix CVE-2012-3570?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2012-3570 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3570 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2009-0692 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-0413 Denial of service in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2018-5732 A specially constructed response from a malicious server can cause a buffer overflow in dhclient High 7.5
• CVE-2009-1893 Path traversal in n/a Medium 6.9
• CVE-2011-4868 Null dereference in n/a Medium 6.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3570, GHSA-c23j-xrx5-hcrf.