CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-2494

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2013-03-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-03-28
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• isc dhcp 4.2.0 • isc dhcp 4.2.1 • isc dhcp 4.2.2 • isc dhcp 4.2.3 • isc dhcp 4.2.4 • isc dhcp 4.2.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References