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CVE-2012-3954
Multiple memory leaks in ISC DHCP 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4-P1 and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial…
- 3.3LowCVSS base score
- 4.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple memory leaks in ISC DHCP 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4-P1 and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending many requests.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.3 | AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.3% · top 8.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- 1027300 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-2516 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1141 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- MDVSA-2012:116 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- MDVSA-2012:115 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- DSA-2519 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-1519-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00737 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201301-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 54665 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-3898 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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