Bug 1760463 (CVE-2018-14881)

Summary:	CVE-2018-14881 tcpdump: Buffer over-read in bgp_capabilities_print() function in print-bgp.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 vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump while printing BGP 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.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-11-04 02:22:07 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1760626, 1791714, 1791715
Bug Blocks:	1760628

Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-10 15:16:26 UTC

The BGP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-bgp.c:bgp_capabilities_print() (BGP_CAPCODE_RESTART).

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/86326e880d31b328a151d45348c35220baa9a1ff

References:

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

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-11 00:04:36 UTC

Created tcpdump tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1760626]

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-04 02:22:07 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-2018-14881

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 03:40:48 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