Description
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.
Published: 2016-03-09
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: 65.6% High
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2003-1 isc-dhcp security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3586-1 DHCP vulnerabilities
History

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

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.63212}

epss

{'score': 0.69959}


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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Debian Linux
Isc Dhcp
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:32:20.980Z

Reserved: 2016-02-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-2774

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-03-09T15:59:00.147

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

Link: CVE-2016-2774

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-03-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2774 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses