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CVE-2016-1503

Published: 18 April 2016

dhcpcd before 6.10.0, as used in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 and other products, mismanages option lengths, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a malformed DHCP response, aka internal bug 26461634.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
dhcpcd
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream Needs triage

vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

dhcpcd5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)
bionic Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)
disco Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)
focal Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)
lunar Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)
mantic Does not exist

precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Needed

upstream
Released (6.10.1-1)
vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)
zesty Not vulnerable
(6.10.1-1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H