CVE-2016-1503: Dhcpcd Project Dhcpcd

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Dhcpcd Project Dhcpcd: up to and including 6.9.4
• Google Android: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.1 only; …

Published 2016-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.