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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-15161: libpcap security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-15161: libpcap security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
10/03/2019
Created
11/30/2019
Added
11/28/2019
Modified
11/28/2019

Description

rpcapd/daemon.c in libpcap before 1.9.1 mishandles certain length values because of reuse of a variable. This may open up an attack vector involving extra data at the end of a request.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-libpcap

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