CVE-2022-0324

Buffer Overflow in Dhcp6relay in Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC)

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Nov 14, 2022
Updated
Apr 30, 2025
Reserved
Jan 21, 2022

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Description

There is a vulnerability in DHCPv6 packet parsing code that could be explored by remote attacker to craft a packet that could cause buffer overflow in a memcpy call, leading to out-of-bounds memory write that would cause dhcp6relay to crash. Dhcp6relay is a critical process and could cause dhcp relay docker to shutdown.

Discovered by Eugene Lim of GovTech Singapore.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HGovTech CSG

Weaknesses

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC)Linux Foundation
  • 202111Affected

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