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CVE-2018-5733 - log back

CVE-2018-5733 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ High
Remote	+ Remote
Type	+ Denial of service
Description	+ A denial of service flaw was found in the way dhcpd handled reference counting when processing client requests. A malicious DHCP client could use this flaw to trigger a reference count overflow on the server side, potentially causing dhcpd to crash, by sending large amounts of traffic.
References	+ https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01567 + https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-announce/2018-February/000418.html + https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=dhcp.git;a=commitdiff;h=197b26f25309f947b97a83b8fdfc414b767798f8 + https://bugs.isc.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=47140
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