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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-16300): tcpdump vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-16300): tcpdump vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/03/2019
Created
01/29/2020
Added
01/28/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-tcpdump

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