Description

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.

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3971

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468504

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-23

https://support.apple.com/HT208221

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3