Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tcpdump  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-TCPDUMP-5416839
  • published10 Apr 2023
  • disclosed7 Apr 2023

Introduced: 7 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-1801  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

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

The SMB protocol decoder in tcpdump version 4.99.3 can perform an out-of-bounds write when decoding a crafted network packet.