Bug 1760621 (CVE-2019-15163)

Summary: CVE-2019-15163 libpcap: Null pointer dereference in rpcapd/daemon.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: luhliari, mruprich, msehnout, msekleta, thozza
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Bug Depends On: 1760624    
Bug Blocks: 1760627    

Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-10 23:43:45 UTC
rpcapd/daemon.c in libpcap before 1.9.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) if a crypt() call fails.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/437b273761adedcbd880f714bfa44afeec186a31

References:

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/libpcap-1.9/CHANGES

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-10 23:58:27 UTC
Created libpcap tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1760624]

Comment 2 Riccardo Schirone 2020-01-16 16:30:03 UTC
RPCAPD support added in tcpdump 1.9.0 (see https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/libpcap-1.9/CHANGES#L74).

Comment 3 Riccardo Schirone 2020-01-16 16:30:34 UTC
RHEL 6 and 7 ship an older version of libpcap that does not even have the vulnerable file.
RHEL 8 ships a newer version, however it is not compiled with RPCAPD support (--enable-remote is not specified).

Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2020-01-16 16:30:38 UTC
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of libpcap as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8 as they did not include support for RPCAPD.

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-01-16 20:09:30 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-2019-15163