CVE-2019-15161

Publication date 30 September 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libpcap	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

this is likely actually fixed by 449d95265252b291711899fd288836414791930d, and thus only affects windows platforms. even if accurate, it's against the libpcap daemon, introduced in 1.9.0 and is not included in debian/ubuntu packaging

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libpcap	Upstream: 617b12c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N