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CVE-2016-2147 (GCVE-0-2016-2147)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-09 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:17
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Summary
Integer overflow in the DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed RFC1035-encoded domain name, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap write.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-03-11 00:00
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