Bug 1490578 (CVE-2017-13011)

Summary: CVE-2017-13011 tcpdump: Buffer overflow in util-print.c:bittok2str_internal()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: dmoppert, jsynacek, luhliari, mruprich, msehnout, msekleta, security-response-team, thozza
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: tcpdump 4.9.2 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A vulnerability was found in tcpdump's verbose printing of packet data. A crafted pcap file or specially crafted network traffic could cause tcpdump to write out of bounds in the BSS segment, potentially causing tcpdump to display truncated or incorrectly decoded fields or crash with a segmentation violation. This does not affect tcpdump when used with the -w option to save a pcap file.
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Last Closed: 2017-09-14 07:40:34 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1475364, 1490717, 1491082    
Bug Blocks: 1490633    

Description Adam Mariš 2017-09-11 21:52:24 UTC 
Buffer overflow in util-print.c:bittok2str_internal() was found.

This vulnerability can be exploited in two ways. The first is to produce a .pcap file with crafted packet(s) for the protocol(s) concerned and make the target system try to decode the file using tcpdump. The second is to send specially crafted packet(s) to the network segment where the target system is running a tcpdump process that is decoding a live packet capture. In the latter case it depends on the specific network protocol if the crafted packet(s) may be sent from the local segment only or from a remote Internet host.
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-09-11 21:52:28 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Tcpdump project
Comment 11 Doran Moppert 2017-09-14 04:35:34 UTC 
Created tcpdump tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475364]
Comment 14 Doran Moppert 2018-05-16 02:56:19 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