Out-of-bounds Read Affecting tcpdump-debuginfo package, versions <14:4.9.3-1.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.56% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-TCPDUMPDEBUGINFO-3296422
  • published3 Feb 2023
  • disclosed3 Oct 2019

Introduced: 3 Oct 2019

CVE-2018-14461  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 tcpdump-debuginfo to version 14:4.9.3-1.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2020:4760.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tcpdump-debuginfo package and not the tcpdump-debuginfo package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The LDP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-ldp.c:ldp_tlv_print().

References

CVSS Scores

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