CVE-2011-2717

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 27, 2019
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jul 11, 2011

Description

The DHCPv6 client (dhcp6c) as used in the dhcpv6 project through 2011-07-25 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a hostname obtained from a DHCP message.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
dhcpv6dhcpv6 project	through 2011-07-25Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2717
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2717
[oss-security] 20110726 Re: CVE request - dhcp clientsmailing-list
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/dhcp6c-shell-command-injection-10869

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