A vulnerability has been identified in OpenBSD, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a stack overflow error in the "cons_options()" [usr.sbin/dhcpd/options.c] function when processing specially crafted DHCP requests, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable system or potentially execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
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2007-10-10 : Initial release
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