SB2015122301 - Input validation error in ISC kea
Published: December 23, 2015 Updated: August 9, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015122301
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8373)
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.