CVE-2015-8373

6.8 MEDIUM

Published: December 22, 2015 Modified: May 06, 2026

Description

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175218.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175337.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01318

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175218.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175337.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01318

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

6 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

6.8 / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

3.1%

87th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

Affected Vendors

isc

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