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CVE-2016-0634

Public on 2017-08-28
Modified on 2017-08-31
Description

An arbitrary command injection flaw was found in the way bash processed the hostname value. A malicious DHCP server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands on the DHCP client machines running bash under specific circumstances.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 bash 2017-08-31 15:53 ALAS-2017-878

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 3.7 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H