CVE-2016-1503

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    CVE-2016-1503

    Published: 18 Apr 2016Last Modified: 27 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/info/76a1609352263bd9def1300d7ba990679571fa30, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034601, https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/dhcpcd/+/1390ace71179f04a09c300ee8d0300aa69d9db09, https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05388711, http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-07

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    v6.9.4
    v6.9.3
    v6.9.2
    v6.9.1
    v6.9.0

    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