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CVE-2016-2147

high

Description

Integer overflow in the DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed RFC1035-encoded domain name, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap write.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3935-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-04

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00020.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00037.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/11/16

https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=d474ffc68290e0a83651c4432eeabfa62cd51e87

https://busybox.net/news.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-02-09

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04025