Security Advisory
CVE-2011-1930
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
In klibc 1.5.20 and 1.5.21, the DHCP options written by ipconfig to /tmp/net-$DEVICE.conf are not properly escaped. This may allow a remote attacker to send a specially crafted DHCP reply which could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of any process which sources DHCP options.
Published Date
November 14, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory