Name: CVE-2016-1503: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2016-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-1503, CWE-119, CVSS 9.8, EPSS 0.09383

dhcpcd before 6.10.0, as used in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 and other products, mismanages option lengths, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a malformed DHCP response, aka internal bug 26461634.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade dhcpcd5	Jul 30, 2024	Apr 18, 2016
Freebsd	—	Upgrade dhcpcd	Dec 10, 2025	Jan 8, 2016
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade net-misc/dhcpcd.	Oct 30, 2017	Apr 17, 2016
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	Apr 18, 2016

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CVSS Details

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