CVE-2016-1503
N/A
Published: April 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:42 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsAndroidDhcpcd
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 6%
Description
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.
Remediation
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References (6)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/info/76a1609352263bd9def1300d7ba990679571fa30x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_HP
Source: [email protected]
https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05388711Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-07Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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