Medium
Security advisory
dhcp.c in dhcpcd before 7.2.1 contains a 1-byte read overflow with DHO_OPTSOVERLOADED.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-11579
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
dhcp.c in dhcpcd before 7.2.1 contains a 1-byte read overflow with DHO_OPTSOVERLOADED.
osv:CVE-2019-11579
Complete source record
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