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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2147

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 RFC...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 busybox

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.27.2-1"}]}]

Debian:13 busybox

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.27.2-1"}]}]

Debian:14 busybox

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:1.27.2-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org