| Name | CVE-2017-11108 |
| Description | tcpdump 4.9.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via crafted packet data. The crash occurs in the EXTRACT_16BITS function, called from the stp_print function for the Spanning Tree Protocol. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1090-1, DSA-3971-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 867718 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| tcpdump (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.9.3-1~deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.3-1~deb9u2 | fixed |
| buster | 4.9.3-1~deb10u2 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster (lts) | 4.9.3-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 4.99.0-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.99.3-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.99.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468504
Proposed patch: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/pull/617
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/d9e65de3d94698ec90dbca42962a30dd2f0680e1 (4.9.1)