Bug 1760453 (CVE-2018-14463) - CVE-2018-14463 tcpdump: Buffer over-read in vrrp_print() function in print-vrrp.c
Summary: CVE-2018-14463 tcpdump: Buffer over-read in vrrp_print() function in print-vr...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-14463
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1760626 1791705 1791706
Blocks: 1760628
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Reported: 2019-10-10 15:03 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2020-11-04 03:40 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: tcpdump 4.9.3
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An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump while printing VRRP 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.
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Last Closed: 2020-11-04 02:21:55 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4760 0 None None None 2020-11-04 03:40:37 UTC

Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-10 15:03:13 UTC 
The VRRP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-vrrp.c:vrrp_print().

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/3de07c772166b7e8e8bb4b9d1d078f1d901b570b

References:

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-11 00:02:22 UTC 
Created tcpdump tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1760626]
Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-04 02:21:55 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-2018-14463
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 03:40:35 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
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