{"action":"Upgrade dhcp to 4.4.1-r0 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"4.4.1-r0","introduced":"4.2.0"}],"component":"dhcp","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Alpine","ecosystem_qualifier":"Alpine:v3.17","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["4.4.1-r0"],"id":"tcs_01M5NAWDPPXQPP7GDXSSQYSPQG","modified_at":"2026-10-23T17:17:55.276750352Z","published_at":"2019-01-16T20:29:00.753Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-5733","https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-5733"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":7.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"ALPINE-CVE-2018-5733#Alpine:v3.17/dhcp","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-5733"}],"summary":"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."}