CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-15161

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2019-10-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-10-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-131

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• tcpdump libpcap (< 1.9.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size weakness

References