CVE-2014-7912: Dhcpcd Project Dhcpcd

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The get_option function in dhcp.c in dhcpcd before 6.2.0, as used in dhcpcd 5.x in Android before 5.1 and other products, does not validate the relationship between length fields and the amount of data, which allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a large length value of an option in a DHCPACK message.

Affected products

• Dhcpcd Project Dhcpcd: up to and including 6.1.0

Published 2015-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.