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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2012-6699 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dhcpcd), 8 status rows across 8 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 4, ignored 2, not-affected 1, released 1.
The decode_search function in dhcp.c in dhcpcd 3.x allows remote DHCP servers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted response.