CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-1503

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2016-04-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-04-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• dhcpcd project dhcpcd (<= 6.9.4) • google android 4.0 • google android 4.0.1 • google android 4.0.2 • google android 4.0.3 • google android 4.0.4 • google android 4.1 • google android 4.1.2 • google android 4.2 • google android 4.2.1 • google android 4.2.2 • google android 4.3 • google android 4.3.1 • google android 4.4 • google android 4.4.1 • google android 4.4.2 • google android 4.4.3 • google android 5.0 • google android 5.0.1 • google android 5.1 • google android 5.1.0 • google android 6.0 • google android 6.0.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References