Input validation error in Kea - CVE-2015-8373

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Input validation error in Kea - CVE-2015-8373

Published: December 23, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU40568
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8373
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: ISC
Affected software:
Kea

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to a crash the entire system.

The kea-dhcp4 and kea-dhcp6 servers 0.9.2 and 1.0.0-beta in ISC Kea, when certain debugging settings are used, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed packet.


How to mitigate CVE-2015-8373

Install update from vendor's website.

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