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wid-sec-w-2026-0887  ·  Published 2026-03-26  ·  View on BSI CERT-Bund ↗

Internet Systems Consortium Kea: Vulnerability allows Denial of Service

CVSS 7.5 HIGH

Risk Summary

Sending a maliciously crafted message to the kea-ctrl-agent, kea-dhcp-ddns, kea-dhcp4, or kea-dhcp6 daemons over any configured API socket or HA listener can cause the receiving daemon to exit with a stack overflow error. This issue affects Kea versions 2.6.0 through 2.6.4 and 3.0.0 through 3.0.2.

CVEs (1)

Affected Vendors

Fedora Internet Systems Consortium Red Hat SUSE

Affected Products (4)

Internet Systems Consortium · Kea <2.6.5
Internet Systems Consortium · Kea 2.6.5
Internet Systems Consortium · Kea <3.0.3
Internet Systems Consortium · Kea 3.0.3

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