CVE-2016-1503

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

18/04/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

10.00

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:dhcpcd_project:dhcpcd::::::::		6.9.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.1.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.2.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.2.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.3.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4.1:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:dhcpcd_project:dhcpcd::::::::		6.9.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.1.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.2.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.2.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.3.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4.1:::::::*

CVE-2016-1503

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools