VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-2147

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability7.71%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-02-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-190

Primary references