{"id":"CLEANSTART-2020-VI55202","summary":"malicious client which is allowed to send very large amounts of traffic (billions of packets) to a DHCP server can eventually overflow a 32-bit reference counter, potentially causing dhcpd to crash","details":"Security vulnerability affects the dhcp package. A malicious client which is allowed to send very large amounts of traffic (billions of packets) to a DHCP server can eventually overflow a 32-bit reference counter, potentially causing dhcpd to crash.","modified":"2026-10-31T15:45:08.321062446Z","published":"2026-10-31T14:40:05.998332Z","upstream":["CVE-2018-5733"],"database_specific":{},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/cleanstart-dev/cleanstart-security-advisories/tree/main/advisories/2020/CLEANSTART-2020-VI55202.json"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5733"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5733"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"dhcp","ecosystem":"CleanStart","purl":"pkg:apk/cleanstart/dhcp"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.4.1-r0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/cleanstart-dev/cleanstart-security-advisories/blob/main/advisories/2020/CLEANSTART-2020-VI55202.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.2","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}