CVE-2010-3616 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-3616?

CVE-2010-3616 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 17 Dec 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ISC DHCP server 4.2 before 4.2.0-P2, when configured to use failover partnerships, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (communications-interrupted state and DHCP client service loss) by connecting to a port that is only intended for a failover peer, as demonstrated by a Nagios check_tcp process check to TCP port 520.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-3616?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Isc Dhcp.

How do I fix CVE-2010-3616?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2010-3616 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-3616 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2009-0692 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-0413 Denial of service in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2018-5732 A specially constructed response from a malicious server can cause a buffer overflow in dhclient High 7.5
• CVE-2009-1893 Path traversal in n/a Medium 6.9
• CVE-2011-4868 Null dereference in n/a Medium 6.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-vgq6-5774-xvfp.