CVE-2016-1503 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/info/76a1609352263bd9def1300d7ba990679571fa30 http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html 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 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-07

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8