Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting libpcap package, versions <1.9.1-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.22% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-LIBPCAP-5685022
  • published3 Oct 2019
  • disclosed3 Oct 2019

Introduced: 3 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-15165  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 libpcap to version 1.9.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpcap package and not the libpcap package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

sf-pcapng.c in libpcap before 1.9.1 does not properly validate the PHB header length before allocating memory.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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