DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1503

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1503

    Published: 18 Apr 2016Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-1503

    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: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1503

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: dhcpcd5

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/dhcpcd5?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6.10.1-1

    Affected versions

    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
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