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CVE-2013-2494
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2013-03-28 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
libdns in ISC DHCP 4.2.x before 4.2.5-P1 allows remote name servers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a dhcpd process, a related issue to CVE-2013-2266.
Affected products
- ISC DHCP: 4.2.0, 4.2.0-a1, 4.2.0-a2, 4.2.0-b1, 4.2.0-b2, 4.2.0-p1 (+13)
References
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