Executive Summary



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Summary
Title tcpdump vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-4252-1 First vendor Publication 2020-01-27
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2020-01-27
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in tcpdump.

Software Description: - tcpdump: command-line network traffic analyzer

Details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in tcpdump. A remote attacker could use these issues to cause tcpdump to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
tcpdump 4.9.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
tcpdump 4.9.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4252-1
CVE-2017-16808, CVE-2018-10103, CVE-2018-10105, CVE-2018-14461,
CVE-2018-14462, CVE-2018-14463, CVE-2018-14464, CVE-2018-14465,
CVE-2018-14466, CVE-2018-14467, CVE-2018-14468, CVE-2018-14469,
CVE-2018-14470, CVE-2018-14879, CVE-2018-14880, CVE-2018-14881,
CVE-2018-14882, CVE-2018-16227, CVE-2018-16228, CVE-2018-16229,
CVE-2018-16230, CVE-2018-16300, CVE-2018-16451, CVE-2018-16452,
CVE-2018-19519, CVE-2019-1010220, CVE-2019-15166, CVE-2019-15167

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tcpdump/4.9.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tcpdump/4.9.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4252-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
78 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
7 % CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
7 % CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
7 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2
Application 134
Application 122
Application 124
Application 117
Application 143
Application 119
Application 87
Application 111
Application 136
Application 133
Application 137
Application 122
Application 97
Application 5
Application 1
Application 1
Application 3
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 3
Hardware 7
Hardware 6
Os 185
Os 4
Os 3
Os 3
Os 2
Os 2

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Date Informations
2020-03-19 13:20:13
  • First insertion