dhcpcd

Description:A fully featured, yet light weight RFC2131 compliant DHCP client
License: BSD-2
Homepage:https://github.com/NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd/ https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/
Location:Portage
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  • + - stable
  • ~ - unstable
  • M - hardmask
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USE flags

  • debug - Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
  • embedded - Embed the definitions of dhcp options in the dhcpcd executable
  • ipv6 - Add support for IP version 6
  • privsep - Enable support for privilege separation
  • udev - Enable virtual/udev integration (device discovery, power and storage device support, etc)

Security Advisory

Date Severity Title
over 8 years normal dhcpcd: Multiple vulnerabilities
about 10 years normal dhcpcd: Denial of service
almost 12 years high dhcpcd: Arbitrary code execution
over 19 years normal dhcpcd: Denial of Service vulnerability

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