ubuntu-cve-2016-1503
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-04-18 00:59
Modified
2025-09-08 16:43
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "dhcpcd5",
            "binary_version": "6.0.5-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1~esm1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "dhcpcd5",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/dhcpcd5@6.0.5-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1~esm1?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "5.5.6-1",
        "6.0.5-1ubuntu1",
        "6.0.5-1.1",
        "6.0.5-2build0.14.04.1",
        "6.0.5-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1~esm1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1503",
  "modified": "2025-09-08T16:43:35Z",
  "published": "2016-04-18T00:59:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1503"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/info/76a1609352263bd9def1300d7ba990679571fa30"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1503"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2016-1503"
  ]
}



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