Vigil@nce - tcpdump: out-of-bounds memory reading
December 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, BIG-IP Hardware, TMOS, Fedora, openSUSE
Leap, Slackware, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, tcpdump.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on service, denial
of service on client.
Provenance: intranet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 30/09/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address of tcpdump, in
order to trigger a denial of service, or to obtain sensitive
information.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/tcpdump-out-of-bounds-memory-reading-30472