CVE-2015-8605

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 82.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
ISC DHCP: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.2-p1, 4.0.3, 4.0.3-rc1 (+78)
Sophos Unified Threat Management Up2Date: through 9.318; through 9.353

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175594.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00162.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00168.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3442
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80703
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034657
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2868-1
https://blogs.sophos.com/2016/02/17/utm-up2date-9-354-released/
https://blogs.sophos.com/2016/02/29/utm-up2date-9-319-released/
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01334

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