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CVE-2016-1503
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-04-18T00:59:15.227 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:42:05.707

Summary

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.

Affected products

dhcpcd_project — dhcpcd

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References

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