6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2007-1218

Published: 02/03/2007 Updated: 11/10/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Off-by-one buffer overflow in the parse_elements function in the 802.11 printer code (print-802_11.c) for tcpdump 3.9.5 and previous versions allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted 802.11 frame. NOTE: this was originally referred to as heap-based, but it might be stack-based.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #413430 CVE-2007-1218: DoS in 80211 printer dissector Package: tcpdump; Maintainer for tcpdump is Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debianorg>; Source for tcpdump is src:tcpdump (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 22:50:34 UTC Severity: ...
Moritz Jodeit discovered that tcpdump had an overflow in the 80211 packet parser Remote attackers could send specially crafted packets, crashing tcpdump, possibly leading to a denial of service ...

References

CWE-119CWE-189http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Mar/0003.htmlhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1100https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168916http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/tcpdump/print-802_11.c?r1=1.31.2.11&r2=1.31.2.12http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/tcpdump/print-802_11.chttp://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1272http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2798http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2799http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-429-1http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22772http://www.osvdb.org/32427http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017717http://secunia.com/advisories/24318http://secunia.com/advisories/24354http://secunia.com/advisories/24423http://secunia.com/advisories/24451http://secunia.com/advisories/24583http://secunia.com/advisories/24610http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:056http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:155http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0368.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0387.htmlhttp://www.turbolinux.com/security/2007/TLSA-2007-46.txthttp://secunia.com/advisories/27580http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.htmlhttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28136http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0793https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32749https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9520https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413430https://usn.ubuntu.com/429-1/https://nvd.nist.gov