Input validation error in Kea - CVE-2015-8373
Published: December 23, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40568
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8373
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Kea
Fedora
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Fedora
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How to mitigate CVE-2015-8373
Install update from vendor's website.
kea - addressed in versions 0.9.2-2.fc22, 1.0.0-1.fc23