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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16452: CVE-2018-16452 tcpdump: Resource exhaustion in smb_fdata() funtion in smbutil.c (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16452: CVE-2018-16452 tcpdump: Resource exhaustion in smb_fdata() funtion in smbutil.c (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/03/2019
Created
11/06/2020
Added
11/05/2020
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

The SMB parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has stack exhaustion in smbutil.c:smb_fdata() via recursion.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-tcpdump
  • redhat-upgrade-tcpdump-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-tcpdump-debugsource

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