Bug 1760455 (CVE-2018-14462)

Summary:	CVE-2018-14462 tcpdump: Buffer over-read in icmp_print() function in print-icmp.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	luhliari, mlichvar, mruprich, msehnout, msekleta, thozza
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	tcpdump 4.9.3	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	An out-of-bounds read flaw was discovered in tcpdump while printing ICMP packets captured in a pcap file or coming from the network. A remote attacker may abuse this flaw by sending specially crafted packets that, when printed, would trigger the flaw and crash the application. System availability is the highest threat from this vulnerability	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-11-04 02:21:58 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1760626, 1791708, 1791709
Bug Blocks:	1760628

Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-10 15:04:55 UTC

The ICMP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-icmp.c:icmp_print().

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/1a1bce0526a77b62e41531b00f8bb5e21fd4f3a3

References:

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-11 00:02:15 UTC

Created tcpdump tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1760626]

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-04 02:21:58 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-14462

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 03:40:36 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:4760 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4760