CVE-2016-2148: Busybox

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 27.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving OPTION_6RD parsing.

Affected products

• Busybox Busybox: up to and including 1.24.2
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2017-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.