CVE-2016-2147

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductBusybox
PublishedFeb 9, 2017
First seenFeb 9, 2017

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
busybox busyboxv ≤ 1.24.2—
debian debian_linux8.0, 9.0—
canonical ubuntu_linux14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10—

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