CVE-2016-2147

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2016-03-10
CWE:
CWE-190->CWE-787
Bugzilla:
1316554: CVE-2016-2147 busybox: out of bounds write (heap) due to integer underflow in udhcpc

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2016-2147 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 busybox Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 busybox Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Nico Golde (Qualcomm Product Security Initiative) for reporting this issue.

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