FKIE_CVE-2016-2147
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-02-09 15:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:43
Severity
Summary
Integer overflow in the DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed RFC1035-encoded domain name, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap write.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| busybox | busybox | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.10 |
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