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CVE-2009-0692

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CVE-2009-0692 describes a stack-based buffer overflow in the ISC DHCP dhclient, affecting versions 4.1 before 4.1.0p1, 4.0 before 4.0.1p1, 3.1 before 3.1.2p1, 3.0, and 2.0. This critical vulnerability, rated 10.0 CVSS, allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary code with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact through a crafted subnet-mask option. While not listed on the KEV catalog, a Proof-of-Concept exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, including its presence in Avaya VoIP phones.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
25.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-9265 · Jul 27, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2578 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: dhcp-7:3.0.1-10.2_EL3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: dhcp-7:3.0.1-65.el4_8.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 Z StreamFixed in: dhcp-7:3.0.1-62.el4_7.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-0692Critical

dhclient: stack overflow leads to arbitrary code execution as root

Jul 14, 2009

References

ftp.netbsd.org / pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-010.txt.asc
itrc.hp.com / service/cki/docDisplay.do
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00003.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/35785
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35829
secunia.com / advisories/35830
secunia.com / advisories/35831
secunia.com / advisories/35832
secunia.com / advisories/35841
secunia.com / advisories/35849
secunia.com / advisories/35850
secunia.com / advisories/35851
secunia.com / advisories/35880
secunia.com / advisories/36457
secunia.com / advisories/37342
secunia.com / advisories/40551
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200907-12.xml
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10758
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5941
isc.org / downloadables/12
isc.org / node/468
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01177.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00340.html
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1833
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/410676
US Government Resource
mandriva.com / security/advisories
osvdb.org / 55819
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-1136.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-1154.html
securityfocus.com / bid/35668
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-803-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1891
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1796