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CVE-2026-56117

dhcpcd Heap Use-After-Free via Control Socket Handling

CVSS 5.7 MEDIUMEPSS 0.1%CWE-416
Vexday Risk Score
13Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 5.7EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
23 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 78ea09e, contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability in the control socket handling within src/control.c that allows local unprivileged attackers to trigger memory corruption when privilege separation is disabled. Attackers can connect to the control socket and send a privileged command such as -x, causing control_recvdata() to free the client object while the same READ+HANGUP event subsequently reaches control_hangup() with the stale pointer, resulting in a use-after-free condition exploitable in deployments using --disable-privsep or where privsep initialization has failed with the control socket operating in mode 0666.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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