CVE-2016-2774

ISC DHCP 4.1.x before 4.1-ESV-R13 and 4.2.x and 4.3.x before 4.3.4 does not restrict the number of concurrent TCP sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure or request-processing outage) by establishing many sessions.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-03-09

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Dhcp (Isc)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183458.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183640.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00066.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2590.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84208
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035196
• https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01354
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00023.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3586-1/