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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-13529

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Systemd 245. A specially crafted DHCP FORCERENEW packet can cause a server running the DHCP client to be vulnerable to a DHCP ACK spoofing attack. An attacker can forge a pair of FORCERENEW and DCHP ACK packets to reconfigure the server.

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CVE-2020-13529

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 May 2021, 16:15 UTC

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Systemd 245. A specially crafted DHCP FORCERENEW packet can cause a server running the DHCP client to be vulnerable to a DHCP ACK spoofing attack. An attacker can forge a pair of FORCERENEW and DCHP ACK packets to reconfigure the server.

osv:CVE-2020-13529
Complete source record
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        "https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42TMJVNYRY65B4QCJICBYOEIVZV3KUYI/",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-48",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210625-0005/",
        "https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1142"
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