CVE-2015-8373

medium

Published 2015-12-22 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

Description

The kea-dhcp4 and kea-dhcp6 servers 0.9.2 and 1.0.0-beta in ISC Kea, when certain debugging settings are used, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

77%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0`
sid	Fixed	`0`
forky	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
isc	kea	`0.9.2`
isc	kea	`1.0.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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