Improper Input Validation Affecting dhcp package, versions [,4.1-ESV-R13)[4.3.0, 4.3.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
20.94% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DHCP-2374413
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Mar 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-2774  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade dhcp to version 4.1-ESV-R13, 4.3.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. ISC DHCP 4.1.x before 4.1-ESV-R13 and 4.2.x and 4.3.x before 4.3.4 does not restrict the number of concurrent TCP sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure or request-processing outage) by establishing many sessions.

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