CVE-2016-2147
HIGH7.5EPSS 8.3%Published: 2/9/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/busyboxfrom 0, < 1.24.2-r0
- Debian/busyboxfrom 0, < 1:1.27.2-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |