ALPINE-CVE-2026-56117
dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 78ea09e, contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability in the control socket handling within src/control.c that allows local unprivileged attackers to trigger memory corruption when privilege separation is disabled. Attackers can connect to the control socket and send a privileged command such as -x, causing control_recvdata() to free the client object while the same READ+HANGUP event subsequently reaches control_hangup() with the stale pointer, resulting in a use-after-free condition exploitable in deployments using --disable-privsep or where privsep initialization has failed with the control socket operating in mode 0666.
ALPINE-CVE-2026-56117
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:ALPINE-CVE-2026-56117
dhcpcd
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 10.5.2-r0
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
dhcpcd
Source reference: /affected/1/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 10.5.2-r0
Source reference:
/affected/1/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
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}
]Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
- Event
- #54542 · Revision 1
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