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Ubuntu: USN-3955-1 (CVE-2018-18409): tcpflow vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3955-1 (CVE-2018-18409): tcpflow vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/17/2018
Created
05/04/2019
Added
05/02/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

A stack-based buffer over-read exists in setbit() at iptree.h of TCPFLOW 1.5.0, due to received incorrect values causing incorrect computation, leading to denial of service during an address_histogram call or a get_histogram call.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-tcpflow
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tcpflow-nox

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