Description
The BOOTP file field is written to the lease file without escaping embedded double-quotes, allowing injection of arbitrary dhclient.conf directives. When the lease file is subsequently re-parsed by dhclient, e.g., after a system restart, an attacker-controlled field from the lease is passed to dhclient-script(8), which evaluates it. A rogue DHCP server may be able to execute arbirary code as root on a system running dhclient.
INFO
Published Date :
2026-04-30T06:56:36.929Z
Last Modified :
2026-05-01T15:25:37.800Z
Source :
freebsd
AFFECTED PRODUCTS
The following products are affected by CVE-2026-42511 vulnerability.
| Vendors | Products |
|---|---|
| Freebsd |
|
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