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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-14470: Moderate: tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2020:4760)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-14470: Moderate: tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2020:4760)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/03/2019
Created
11/06/2020
Added
11/05/2020
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

The Babel parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-babel.c:babel_print_v2().

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-tcpdump
  • centos-upgrade-tcpdump-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-tcpdump-debugsource

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