ASA-2019-00578 – ISC Kea DHCP: A packet containing a malformed DUID can cause the kea-dhcp6 server to terminate


Allele Security Alert

ASA-2019-00578

Identifier(s)

ASA-2019-00578, CVE-2019-6472

Title

A packet containing a malformed DUID can cause the kea-dhcp6 server to terminate

Vendor(s)

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)

Product(s)

ISC Kea DHCP

Affected version(s)

ISC Kea DHCP version 1.6.0-beta1
ISC Kea DHCP version 1.6.0-beta2
ISC Kea DHCP version 1.5.0
ISC Kea DHCP version 1.4.0

Fixed version(s)

ISC Kea DHCP version 1.6.0
ISC Kea DHCP version 1.5.0-P1
ISC Kea DHCP version 1.4.0-P2

Proof of concept

Unknown

Description

A packet containing a malformed DUID can cause the Kea DHCPv6 server process (kea-dhcp6) to exit due to an assertion failure.

Technical details

Unknown

Credits

Unknown

Reference(s)

CVE-2019-6472: A packet containing a malformed DUID can cause the kea-dhcp6 server to terminate
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2019-6472

CVE-2019-6472
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6472

CVE-2019-6472
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6472

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Last modified: October 21, 2019

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