CVE-2013-2494 (GCVE-0-2013-2494)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-03-28 16:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
libdns in ISC DHCP 4.2.x before 4.2.5-P1 allows remote name servers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a dhcpd process, a related issue to CVE-2013-2266.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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