Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libpcap (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBPCAP-1372188
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed2 Feb 2017
Introduced: 2 Feb 2017
CVE-2017-5205 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:6.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpcap package and not the libpcap package as distributed by RHEL.
The ISAKMP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-isakmp.c:ikev2_e_print().
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95852
- https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1494526.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5205
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3775
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-30
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1871
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037755
- https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg1494526.html