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    CVE-2016-2147

    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.

    Published:Mar 10, 2016
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Feb 9, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.02203
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Busybox
    Product
    Busybox
    Vendor
    Canonical
    Product
    Ubuntu Linux
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux

    Exploits

    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153278/WAGO-852-Industrial-Managed-Switch-Series-Code-Execution-Hardcoded-Credentials.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.htmlhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Aug/20https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/14https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/7http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153278/WAGO-852-Industrial-Managed-Switch-Series-Code-Execution-Hardcoded-Credentials.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.htmlhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Aug/20https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/14https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/7

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-92 Forced Integer Overflow

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    References

    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153278/WAGO-852-Industrial-Managed-Switch-Series-Code-Execution-Hardcoded-Credentials.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Aug/20
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/11/16
    https://busybox.net/news.html
    https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=d474ffc68290e0a83651c4432eeabfa62cd51e87
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00037.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00020.html
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/14
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/7
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-04
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/3935-1/
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153278/WAGO-852-Industrial-Managed-Switch-Series-Code-Execution-Hardcoded-Credentials.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Aug/20
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/11/16
    https://busybox.net/news.html
    https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=d474ffc68290e0a83651c4432eeabfa62cd51e87
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00037.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00020.html
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/14
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/7
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-04
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/3935-1/

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High