VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8605

medium
Published 2016-01-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
15.10 Affected —
15.04 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.3.3-7
sid Fixed 4.3.3-7
bullseye Fixed 4.3.3-7
bookworm Fixed 4.3.3-7
9.0 Affected —
8.0 Affected —
7.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
sophosunified_threat_management_up2date{"endIncluding":"9.318"}
iscdhcp4.0.0
iscdhcp4.0.1
iscdhcp4.0.2
iscdhcp4.0.3
iscdhcp4.1-esv
iscdhcp4.1.0
iscdhcp4.1.1
iscdhcp4.1.2
iscdhcp4.2.0
iscdhcp4.2.1
iscdhcp4.2.2
iscdhcp4.2.3
iscdhcp4.2.4
iscdhcp4.2.5
iscdhcp4.2.6
iscdhcp4.2.7
iscdhcp4.2.8
iscdhcp4.3.0
iscdhcp4.3.1
iscdhcp4.3.2
iscdhcp4.3.3

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.