Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting tcpdump package, versions [,3.6.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.78% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TCPDUMP-2429209
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Jul 2001
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jul 2001

CVE-2001-1279  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tcpdump to version 3.6.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Buffer overflow in print-rx.c of tcpdump 3.x (probably 3.6x) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via AFS RPC packets with invalid lengths that trigger an integer signedness error, a different vulnerability than CVE-2000-1026.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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