Resource Exhaustion Affecting libpcap-devel package, versions <14:1.9.1-4.el8


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBPCAPDEVEL-3887914
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Sept 2019

Introduced: 20 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-15165  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 libpcap-devel to version 14:1.9.1-4.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:4547.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpcap-devel package and not the libpcap-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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.

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