Severity
6.5MEDIUM
EPSS
43.4%
top 2.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJan 14
Latest updateMay 13

Description

ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.1-ESV-R12-P1, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid length field in a UDP IPv4 packet.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

Debianisc-dhcp< 4.3.3-7+2
NVDisc/dhcp21 versions+20

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-fpv7-2967-vrc5: ISC DHCP 42022-05-13
OSV
CVE-2015-8605: ISC DHCP 42016-01-14
CVEList
CVE-2015-8605: ISC DHCP 42016-01-14

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
DHCP vulnerability2016-01-13
Red Hat
dhcp: UDP payload length not properly checked2016-01-12
Debian
CVE-2015-8605: isc-dhcp - ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.1-ESV-R12-P1, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3-P1 allows remo...2015

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8605 dhcp: UDP payload length not properly checked [fedora-all]2016-01-13
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8605 dhcp: UDP payload length not properly checked2016-01-11