{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1503","details":"dhcpcd before 6.10.0, as used in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 and other products, mismanages option lengths, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a malformed DHCP response, aka internal bug 26461634.","modified":"2025-09-08T16:43:35Z","published":"2016-04-18T00:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-1503"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1503"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/info/76a1609352263bd9def1300d7ba990679571fa30"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1503"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"dhcpcd5","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/dhcpcd5@6.0.5-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["5.5.6-1","6.0.5-1ubuntu1","6.0.5-1.1","6.0.5-2build0.14.04.1","6.0.5-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1~esm1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"dhcpcd5","binary_version":"6.0.5-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1~esm1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1503.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}