Out-of-bounds read in Tcpdump - CVE-2018-16227

Vulnerability identifier: #VU22015

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16227

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the print-802_11.c for the Mesh Flags subfield within the IEEE 802.11 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3. A remote attacker can generate specially crafted data, trigger out-of-bounds read error and perform denial of service attack.

Tcpdump
IBM VIOS
OpenShift Data Foundation (formerly OpenShift Container Storage)
tcpdump (Debian package)
tcpdump (Alpine package)
tcpdump (Red Hat package)
tcpdump
IBM AIX
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Oracle Solaris
Slackware Linux
Opensuse
Fedora

Install update from vendor's website.

Tcpdump - update to 4.9.3
tcpdump (Debian package) - addressed in versions 4.9.3-1~deb9u1, 4.9.3-1~deb10u1
tcpdump (Alpine package) - update to 4.9.3-r0
tcpdump (Red Hat package) - update to 4.9.3-1.el8
tcpdump - addressed in versions 4.9.3-1.fc29, 4.9.3-1.fc30, 4.9.3-1.fc31

• https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/tcpdump-4.9/CHANGES
• https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/4846b3c5d0a850e860baf4f07340495d29837d09
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00015.html

• OpenSUSE Linux update for tcpdump
• OpenSUSE Linux update for tcpdump
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Tcpdump
• Debian update for tcpdump
• Slackware Linux update for tcpdump
• IBM AIX update for tcpdump
• Oracle Solaris update for third party packages
• Out-of-bounds read in tcpdump (Alpine package)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 update for tcpdump
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage
• Fedora 31 update for tcpdump
• Fedora 30 update for tcpdump
• Fedora 29 update for tcpdump