CVE-2013-2494

Description

From CVE.org

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.

Statement

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of dhcp as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score2.14.9N/A
Attack VectorNetworkNetworkN/A
Access ComplexityHighHighN/A
AuthenticationSingleSingleN/A
Confidentiality ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Availability ImpactPartialCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

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