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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16300: Moderate: tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2020:4760)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16300: Moderate: tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-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
07/19/2021

Description

The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 allows stack consumption in print-bgp.c:bgp_attr_print() because of unlimited recursion.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-tcpdump
  • redhat-upgrade-tcpdump-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-tcpdump-debugsource

References

  • DSA-4547
  • CVE-2018-16300

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