CVE-2025-70102: dhcpcd: NULL Pointer Dereference in Configuration Option Parsing

Summary by Cyber Security News30 Oct 2026, 13:20 CET

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Posted by Alexander A. Shvedov on Oct 30 Product: dhcpcd Affected: 10.3.0 as identified in the CVE description; reproduced at commit 2de751b3691642151a4fdc49e444d6b4dc364e98 CWE: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference) Reporter: Alexander A. Shvedov (@sigdevel) Description: While processing crafted configuration input, parse_option() in src/if-options.c accesses members of a NULL struct dhcp_opt pointer.

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