Out-of-bounds Read Affecting tcpdump package, versions [,4.9.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TCPDUMP-2369796
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Oct 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Oct 2019

CVE-2018-14462  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tcpdump to version 4.9.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. The ICMP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-icmp.c:icmp_print().

CVSS Scores

version 3.1