CVE-2015-8605
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 82.72% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 99.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-01-14 22:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 08:20Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-12-17
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1ed9051a8f723ed0540bb773e3abc4ee60242d08fd8f87d5cd79ad2ffa0c7998
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securitytracker.com1034657http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034657
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0610http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00168.html
- blogs.sophos.comhttps://blogs.sophos.com/2016/02/17/utm-up2date-9-354-released/
- kb.isc.orghttps://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01334
- blogs.sophos.comhttps://blogs.sophos.com/2016/02/29/utm-up2date-9-319-released/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-0c5bb21bf1http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175594.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-3442http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3442
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2868-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2868-1
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-adb533a418http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176031.html
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
- www.securityfocus.com80703http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80703
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0601http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00162.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- isc-dhcp Fixed in 4.3.3-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- isc-dhcp Fixed in 4.3.3-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- isc-dhcp Fixed in 4.2.4-7ubuntu12.4
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.