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CVE-2013-2494

N/A

Published: March 28, 2013 at 04:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:53 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorDHCP

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 1%

Description

libdns in ISC DHCP 4.2.x before 4.2.5-P1 allows remote name servers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a dhcpd process, a related issue to CVE-2013-2266.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

95%

4.2.0 4.2.0 a1 4.2.0 a2 4.2.0 b1 4.2.0 b2 4.2.0 p1 4.2.0 rc1 4.2.1 4.2.1 b1 4.2.1 rc1 4.2.2 4.2.2 b1 4.2.2 rc1 4.2.3 4.2.3 p1 4.2.3 p2 4.2.4 4.2.4 p1 4.2.5

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00880/

References (1)

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00880/

CVSS

4.9MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-119

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