Missing Initialization of Resource Affecting tcpdump package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TCPDUMP-2369852
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19519  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-909  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for tcpdump.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Initialization of Resource. In tcpdump 4.9.2, a stack-based buffer over-read exists in the print_prefix function of print-hncp.c via crafted packet data because of missing initialization.

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