Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting tcpdump package, versions <14:4.9.0-5.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.38% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TCPDUMP-5205660
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Feb 2017

Introduced: 2 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-5342  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tcpdump to version 14:4.9.0-5.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL: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().