Memory Consumption Denial of Service Vulnerability in ISC DHCP 4.2.x before 4.2.5-P1

CVE-2013-2494 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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