Out-of-Bounds Affecting tcpdump package, versions [,3.9.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
9.56% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TCPDUMP-2369772
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Mar 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Mar 2007

CVE-2007-1218  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tcpdump to version 3.9.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Off-by-one buffer overflow in the parse_elements function in the 802.11 printer code (print-802_11.c) for tcpdump 3.9.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted 802.11 frame. NOTE: this was originally referred to as heap-based, but it might be stack-based.

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