Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:49:22 +0000 From: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> Subject: git: dda71167a101 - releng/14.3 - dhclient: Check for unexpected characters in some DHCP server options Message-ID: <69f21a72.3c7a1.5d8245e7@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch releng/14.3 has been updated by markj: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=dda71167a1013aceb1c4236a9297a24dd62754ac commit dda71167a1013aceb1c4236a9297a24dd62754ac Author: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2026-04-27 20:03:09 +0000 Commit: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2026-04-28 20:33:04 +0000 dhclient: Check for unexpected characters in some DHCP server options Some options are written directly to the lease file, which may be parsed by subsequent dhclient invocations. We must make sure that a malicious server can't control the "medium" field of a lease definition, otherwise they can achieve RCE by injecting one into the lease file, whereupon it will be passed to dhclient-script, which passes it through eval. Approved by: so Security: FreeBSD-SA-26:12.dhclient Security: CVE-2026-42511 Reported by: Joshua Rogers of AISLE Research Team (https://aisle.com/) --- sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c b/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c index cbab3fa2973c..01ef38530cdf 100644 --- a/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c +++ b/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c @@ -1226,6 +1226,12 @@ packet_to_lease(struct packet *packet) } memcpy(lease->server_name, packet->raw->sname, DHCP_SNAME_LEN); lease->server_name[DHCP_SNAME_LEN]='\0'; + if (strchr(lease->server_name, '"') != NULL || + strchr(lease->server_name, '\\') != NULL) { + warning("dhcpoffer: server name contains invalid characters."); + free_client_lease(lease); + return (NULL); + } } /* Ditto for the filename. */ @@ -1241,6 +1247,12 @@ packet_to_lease(struct packet *packet) } memcpy(lease->filename, packet->raw->file, DHCP_FILE_LEN); lease->filename[DHCP_FILE_LEN]='\0'; + if (strchr(lease->filename, '"') != NULL || + strchr(lease->filename, '\\') != NULL) { + warning("dhcpoffer: filename contains invalid characters."); + free_client_lease(lease); + return (NULL); + } } return lease; }home | help
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