CVE-2019-15165
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Oct 3, 2019
- Updated
- Dec 3, 2025
- Reserved
- Aug 19, 2019
Description
sf-pcapng.c in libpcap before 1.9.1 does not properly validate the PHB header length before allocating memory.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- https://www.tcpdump.org/public-cve-list.txt
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/libpcap-1.9/CHANGES
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/a5a36d9e82dde7265e38fe1f87b7f11c461c29f6
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/87d6bef033062f969e70fa40c43dfd945d5a20ab
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2343vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2345vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20191021 [SECURITY] [DLA 1967-1] libpcap security updatemailing-list
- FEDORA-2019-eaa681d33evendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2019-4fe461079fvendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2019-b92ce3144avendor-advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210790
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210785
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210789
- USN-4221-1vendor-advisory
- 20191211 APPLE-SA-2019-12-10-3 macOS Catalina 10.15.2, Security Update 2019-002 Mojave, Security Update 2019-007 High Sierramailing-list
- 20191213 APPLE-SA-2019-12-10-3 macOS Catalina 10.15.2, Security Update 2019-002 Mojave, Security Update 2019-007 High Sierramailing-list
- USN-4221-2vendor-advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- [debian-lts-announce] 20211226 [SECURITY] [DLA 2850-1] libpcap security updatemailing-list
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