Description
Passing of unsanitized strings from DHCP replies into the wicked dhcp client before wicked 0.6.79 could be used by attackers operating a malicious DHCP server to execute code on the local machine.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Affected products
- SUSE / wicked0 – 0.6.79
References
- MISChttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265221
- PATCHhttps://github.com/openSUSE/wicked/releases/tag/version-0.6.79
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026688.html
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026689.html
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026690.html
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026691.html