Out-of-bounds Read Affecting tcpdump package, versions <4.9.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.65% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-TCPDUMP-521847
  • published8 Jul 2017
  • disclosed8 Jul 2017

Introduced: 8 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11108  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 tcpdump to version 4.9.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tcpdump package and not the tcpdump package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

tcpdump 4.9.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via crafted packet data. The crash occurs in the EXTRACT_16BITS function, called from the stp_print function for the Spanning Tree Protocol.