Known Vulnerabilities for Dhclient by Dhclient Project

Listed below are 1 of the newest known vulnerabilities associated with "Dhclient" by "Dhclient Project".

These CVEs are retrieved based on exact matches on listed software, hardware, and vendor information (CPE data) as well as a keyword search to ensure the newest vulnerabilities with no officially listed software information are still displayed.

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Known Vulnerabilities

CVE Shortened Description Severity Publish Date Last Modified
CVE-2026-42512 json As dhclient is building an environment to pass to dhclient-script, it may need to resize the array of string pointers. The c... Not Provided 2026-04-30 2026-05-01
CVE-2026-42511 json The BOOTP file field is written to the lease file without escaping embedded double-quotes, allowing injection of arbitrary dh... Not Provided 2026-04-30 2026-05-01
CVE-2026-10805 json A flaw was found in NetworkManager. This local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in NetworkManager's dhclient backend... Not Provided 2026-06-04 2026-07-02
CVE-2012-2248 json An issue was discovered in dhclient 4.3.1-6 due to an embedded path variable. 8.1 - HIGH 2019-11-27 2020-08-18

Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language
ApplicationDhclient ProjectDhclient4.3.1-6

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