Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libpcap  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBPCAP-471739
  • published3 Oct 2019
  • disclosed3 Oct 2019

Introduced: 3 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-15161  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-131  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpcap package and not the libpcap package as distributed by Debian.

rpcapd/daemon.c in libpcap before 1.9.1 mishandles certain length values because of reuse of a variable. This may open up an attack vector involving extra data at the end of a request.