QID 671059

Date Published: 2021-11-29

QID 671059: EulerOS Security Update for tcpdump (EulerOS-SA-2019-2435)

The tcpdump packages contain the tcpdump utility for monitoring network traffic.
The tcpdump utility can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces.
Security fix(es): tcpdump 4.9.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via crafted packet data.
The crash occurs in the extract_16bits function, called from the stp_print function for the spanning tree protocol.(cve-2017-11108) tcpdump 4.9.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the pimv1_print function in print-pim.c.(cve-2017-11542) tcpdump 4.9.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the lldp_print function in print-lldp.c, related to util-print.c.(cve-2017-11541) tcpdump 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in the sliplink_print function in print-sl.c.(cve-2017-11543)

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An arbitrary attacker may exploit this vulnerability to compromise the system.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

Solution

The Vendor has released a security update to fix the vulnerability. For more information please visit EulerOS-SA-2019-2435 for updates and patch information

Vendor References

EulerOS-SA-2019-2435 - developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2435

CVEs related to QID 671059

CVE-2017-11542 | CVE-2017-11541 | CVE-2017-11543 | CVE-2017-11108 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
EulerOS-SA-2019-2435	EulerOS V2.0SP2		developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2435

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