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CVE-2015-8605 json

ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.1-ESV-R12-P1, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application cras…

published 10y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-8483

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
82.7%
EPSS 82.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.6%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.1-ESV-R12-P1, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid length field in a UDP IPv4 packet.

Patch / fix

  • isc-dhcp Debian 13, Debian 12 4.3.3-7

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8605

  • isc-dhcp Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.2.4-7ubuntu12.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8605

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • dhcp SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 +1 more 4.3.3-4.1
  • dhcp SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 +1 more 4.2.6-14.3.1
  • dhcp SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES for SAP 11 SP3, SLES 11 SP4 +6 more 4.2.4.P2-0.24.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:0541-1SUSE-SU-2016:0540-1SUSE-SU-2016:0481-1

  • dhcp openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.3.3.P1-3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10358-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-8605 updated cvss 2.9

dhcp: UDP payload length not properly checked

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 dhcp Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 dhcp, dhclient, dhcp-common Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 dhcp, dhclient, dhcp-libs, dhcp-common
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

82.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.7 AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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