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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-2147: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-2147: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/09/2017
Created
10/02/2024
Added
10/01/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

Integer overflow in the DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed RFC1035-encoded domain name, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap write.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-busybox

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