BOOTP/DHCP Malformed

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Hello,

I have a strange situation here because Wireshark reports a lot of Notes for Malformed DHCP Requests coming from users on our network. The details for one messege look like this:

Severity: Note
Group: Malformed
Chats: BOOTP/DHCP
Details: Seconds elapsed (4) appears to be encoded as little-endian

Bootstrap Protocol
    Message type: Boot Request (1)
    Hardware Type: Ethernet
    Hardware address length: 6
    Hops: 1
    Transaction ID: 0x207572a1
Seconds elapsed: 4
    [Expert Info (Note/Malformed): Seconds elapsed (4) appears to be encoded as little-endian]
    [Message: Seconds elapsed (4) appears to be encoded as little-endian]
    [Severity level: Note]
    [Group: Malformed]
Bootp flags: 0x8000 (Broadcast)
    Client IP address: 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0)
    Next server IP address: 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0)
    Relay agent IP address: x.y.z.w (x.y.z.w) [replaced for confidentiality]
    Client MAC address: AsustekC_62:e4:5b (00:22:15:62:e4:5b)
Client hardware address padding: 00000000000000000000
Server host name not given
Boot file name not given

Would anyone be so kind to let me know what is causing the "Malformed" detection and what can we do in order to fix this issue. 
We use Sandvine for subscribers mapping and their DPI engine has dificulties to correct map the dynamic assigned IPs due to these Malformed DHCP packets.

Thank you in advance for any answer that can help us fix this problem,
Julian
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