CVE-2015-8605 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in ISC DHCP versions 4.x, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x, affecting products from vendors like Canonical, Debian, ISC, and Sophos. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the DHCP application by sending a specially crafted UDP IPv4 packet with an invalid length field. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3.0 score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and no user interaction required, with a high impact on availability. Despite its high FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 9.318CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sophos:unified_threat_management_up2date:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 9.353CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sophos:unified_threat_management_up2date:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:dhcp:4.0.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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