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.
Published: 2016-04-18
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 16.2% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-2601 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.
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.07173}

epss

{'score': 0.07135}


Subscriptions

Dhcpcd Project Dhcpcd
Google Android
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:55:14.649Z

Reserved: 2016-01-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-1503

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-04-18T00:59:15.227

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

Link: CVE-2016-1503

cve-icon Redhat

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Weaknesses