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"state": "PUBLISHED",
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"dateReserved": "2025-04-16T08:44:49.857Z",
"datePublished": "2025-08-27T20:23:29.489Z",
"dateUpdated": "2025-11-04T21:10:15.428Z"
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"title": "Kea crash upon interaction between specific client options and subnet selection",
"datePublic": "2025-08-27T00:00:00.000Z",
"affected": [
{
"vendor": "ISC",
"product": "Kea",
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"scope": "UNCHANGED",
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"value": "If a DHCPv4 client sends a request with some specific options, and Kea fails to find an appropriate subnet for the client, the `kea-dhcp4` process will abort with an assertion failure. This happens only if the client request is unicast directly to Kea; broadcast messages do not cause the problem.\nThis issue affects Kea versions 2.7.1 through 2.7.9, 3.0.0, and 3.1.0."
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"value": "Denial of service. A malicious or misconfigured DHCP client can crash the Kea DHCPv4 service by sending a single packet."
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"value": "No workarounds known."
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"value": "Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of Kea: 3.0.1 or 3.1.1."
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"value": "ISC would like to thank the following for bringing this vulnerability to our attention:\n\n* Jochen M.\n* Martin Dinev, Trading212\n* Ashwani Kumar, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India\n* Bret Giddings, University of Essex\n* Florian Ritterhoff, Munich University of Applied Sciences"
}
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"url": "https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-40779",
"name": "CVE-2025-40779",
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"dateUpdated": "2025-08-28T14:08:05.935Z"
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"title": "CVE Program Container",
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"url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/27/1"
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