CVE-2016-2774

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CVSS 3.1

5.9 medium

EPSS

74%p99

Published

Mar 9, 2016 (Mar 9, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

ISC DHCP 4.1.x before 4.1-ESV-R13 and 4.2.x and 4.3.x before 4.3.4 does not restrict the number of concurrent TCP sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure or request-processing outage) by establishing many sessions.

Vendors: isc debian canonical
Products: dhcp, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Weakness: CWE-20
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (73.6%)

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