Out-of-Bounds Affecting dhcpcd5 package, versions <6.10.1-1
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-DHCPCD5-523548
- published18 Apr 2016
- disclosed18 Apr 2016
Introduced: 18 Apr 2016
CVE-2016-1503 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 dhcpcd5 to version 6.10.1-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dhcpcd5 package and not the dhcpcd5 package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1503
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-07
- http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/info/76a1609352263bd9def1300d7ba990679571fa30
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/dhcpcd/+/1390ace71179f04a09c300ee8d0300aa69d9db09
- https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05388711
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034601