CVE-2013-2494

Published Mar 28, 2013

Last updated 12 years ago

Overview

Description
libdns in ISC DHCP 4.2.x before 4.2.5-P1 allows remote name servers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a dhcpd process, a related issue to CVE-2013-2266.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.9
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-119

Configurations