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CVE-2022-2929

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2929 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in ISC DHCP versions 1.0 through 4.4.3 and 4.1-ESV-R1 through 4.1-ESV-R16-P1, affecting various Debian and Fedora distributions. An attacker on the local network can craft DHCP packets with excessively long FQDN labels, leading to memory exhaustion on the DHCP server. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and high impact on availability, requiring no user interaction or privileges. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.0.0, < 4.1-esvCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.2.0, <= 4.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1-esvCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:4.1-esv:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1-esvCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:4.1-esv:r10:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1-esvCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:4.1-esv:r10_b1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0064 is in the 73rd 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 (12)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 ARMFixed in: 4.4.3.P1-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18594-16823Fixed in: 4.4.3-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18595-17084Fixed in: 4.4.3.P1-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19973-17084Fixed in: 4.4.3.P1-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 x64Fixed in: 4.4.3.P1-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18593-16820Fixed in: 4.4.2-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 dhcp 4.4.2-3 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 4.4.2-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 dhcp 4.4.3-3 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 4.4.3-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 dhcp 4.4.3.P1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 4.4.3.P1-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 dhcp 4.4.3-2 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 4.4.3.P1-1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: dhcp-12:4.3.6-49.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: dhcp-12:4.4.2-18.b1.el9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2024-Jul/CVE-2022-2929

CVE-2022-2929

Jul 9, 2024
microsoft2022-Oct/CVE-2022-2929Moderate

DHCP memory leak

Oct 11, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-2929Moderate

dhcp: DHCP memory leak

Oct 5, 2022

References

kb.isc.org / docs/cve-2022-2929
Vendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00015.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2SARIK7KZ7MGQIWDRWZFAOSQSPXY4GOU
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QQXYCIWUDILRCNBAIMVFCSGXBRKEPB4K
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6IBFH4MRRNJQVWEKILQ6I6CXWW766FX
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-22