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CVE-2026-56116

28
FAUCET Score

dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 708b4a5, contains a memory leak vulnerability in the IPv6 Router Advertisement route information handling that allows an unauthenticated same-link attacker to cause denial of service by sending crafted Router Advertisements. Attackers can repeatedly send Router Advertisements containing Route Information options with a lifetime of zero, triggering unfreed allocations in routeinfo_findalloc() that cause linear memory exhaustion and eventual daemon crash.

First published: Jun 23, 2026Last modified: Jul 14, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 10.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dhcpcd_project:dhcpcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

7.1HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
NONE
VS Integrity
NONE
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
8.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 10th percentile among its peer group of 1,802 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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 (7)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 dhcpcd 10.0.8-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 10.0.8-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 dhcpcd 10.0.8-2 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 10.0.8-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 dhcpcd 10.0.8-4 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 10.0.8-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 21467-17084Fixed in: 10.0.8-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 21524-17084Fixed in: 10.0.8-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 21558-17084Fixed in: 10.0.8-2

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2026-Jun/CVE-2026-56116Moderate

dhcpcd Memory Leak DoS via IPv6 Router Advertisement Handling

Jun 9, 2026

References

github.com / NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd/commit/708b4a56bae080a5b18c2e0c4c6fbe103131a2b0
Patch
vulncheck.com / advisories/dhcpcd-memory-leak-dos-via-ipv6-router-advertisement-handling
Third Party Advisory