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Bug 1475359 - (CVE-2017-11544) CVE-2017-11544 tcpdump: Segmentation Violation in the compressed_sl_print
CVE-2017-11544 tcpdump: Segmentation Violation in the compressed_sl_print
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20170718,reported=2...
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Depends On: 1475364
Blocks: 1490633
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Reported: 2017-07-26 09:49 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2018-05-15 23:52 EDT (History)
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A vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's handling of LINKTYPE_SLIP pcap files. An attacker could craft a malicious pcap file that would cause tcpdump to crash when attempting to print a summary of packet data within the file.
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Last Closed: 2017-08-02 02:09:46 EDT
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-07-26 09:49:10 EDT
tcpdump 4.9.0 has a Segmentation Violation in the compressed_sl_print function in print-sl.c:229:3.

Reproducer:

https://github.com/hackerlib/hackerlib-vul/tree/master/tcpdump-vul/segv/print-sl
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-07-26 09:52:09 EDT
Created tcpdump tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475364]
Comment 4 Doran Moppert 2017-08-02 02:04:29 EDT
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Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
Comment 6 Doran Moppert 2018-05-15 22:45:48 EDT
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
Comment 7 Doran Moppert 2018-05-15 23:52:09 EDT
This issue was determined to be a duplicate of CVE-2017-11543:

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/619#issuecomment-328067873
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11544

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