Bug 1475355 (CVE-2017-11542)

Summary:	CVE-2017-11542 tcpdump: heap-based buffer over-read in the pimv1_print
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	luhliari, mruprich, msehnout, msekleta, thozza
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Bug Depends On:	1475364
Bug Blocks:	1490633

Description Adam Mariš 2017-07-26 13:43:26 UTC

tcpdump 4.9.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the pimv1_print function in print-pim.c.

Reproducer:

https://github.com/hackerlib/hackerlib-vul/tree/master/tcpdump-vul/heap-buffer-overflow/print-pim

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-07-26 13:51:37 UTC

Created tcpdump tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475364]

Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2018-05-16 02:43:43 UTC

This issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 via RHEA-2018:0705, which rebased tcpdump to 4.9.2:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0705