CVE-2015-8373 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The kea-dhcp4 and kea-dhcp6 servers 0.9.2 and 1.0.0-beta in ISC Kea, when certain debugging settings are used, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed packet.

Published: 2015-12-22

Score: 6.8 Medium

EPSS: 3.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:isc:kea:0.9.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:isc:kea:1.0.0:beta::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-8256	The kea-dhcp4 and kea-dhcp6 servers 0.9.2 and 1.0.0-beta in ISC Kea, when certain debugging settings are used, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed packet.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03062.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175218.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175337.html
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01318

History

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Subscriptions

Isc Kea

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-12-22T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.902Z

Reserved: 2015-11-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-8373

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-12-22T23:59:00.183

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-8373

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-20

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