CVE-2015-8605

Publication date 12 January 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
isc-dhcp 15.10 wily
Fixed 4.3.1-5ubuntu3.1
15.04 vivid
Fixed 4.3.1-5ubuntu2.3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.2.4-7ubuntu12.4
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 4.1.ESV-R4-0ubuntu5.10

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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