Out-of-Bounds Affecting tcpdump package, versions <14:4.9.0-5.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.85% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-TCPDUMP-2515402
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed28 Jan 2017

Introduced: 28 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-5342  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 tcpdump to version 14:4.9.0-5.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2017-1871.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tcpdump package and not the tcpdump package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In tcpdump before 4.9.0, a bug in multiple protocol parsers (Geneve, GRE, NSH, OTV, VXLAN and VXLAN GPE) could cause a buffer overflow in print-ether.c:ether_print().