Bug 1760518 (CVE-2018-16452) - CVE-2018-16452 tcpdump: Resource exhaustion in smb_fdata() funtion in smbutil.c
Summary: CVE-2018-16452 tcpdump: Resource exhaustion in smb_fdata() funtion in smbutil.c
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2018-16452
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
Blocks: 1760628
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Reported: 2019-10-10 17:34 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2019-10-11 13:38 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: tcpdump 4.9.3
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-10 17:34:25 UTC 
The SMB parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has stack exhaustion in smbutil.c:smb_fdata() via recursion.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/24182d959f661327525a20d9a94c98a8ec016778

References:

https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-11 00:04:52 UTC 
Created tcpdump tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1760626]
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