CVE-2019-15161
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15161
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-15161.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-15161
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2019-10-03T19:15:09.240Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-22T01:28:53.409140Z
- Severity
-
- 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
rpcapd/daemon.c in libpcap before 1.9.1 mishandles certain length values because of reuse of a variable. This may open up an attack vector involving extra data at the end of a request.
- References
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- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/libpcap-1.9/CHANGES
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5P5K3DQ4TFSZBDB3XN4CZNJNQ3UIF3D3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GBIEKWLNIR62KZ5GA7EDXZS52HU6OE5F/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UZTIPUWABYUE5KQOLCKAW65AUUSB7QO6/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210785
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210789
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210790
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/libpcap-1.9/CHANGES
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/617b12c0339db4891d117b661982126c495439ea
- https://www.tcpdump.org/public-cve-list.txt
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/617b12c0339db4891d117b661982126c495439ea
Affected packages
Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed