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CVE-2007-3798 Detail

Description

Integer overflow in print-bgp.c in the BGP dissector in tcpdump 3.9.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted TLVs in a BGP packet, related to an unchecked return value.


Severity



CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  9.8 CRITICAL
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (07/31/2007)

This issue does not affect the version of tcpdump shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3. Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250275 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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Hyperlink Resource
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184815 Third Party Advisory 
http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/tcpdump/print-bgp.c?r1=1.91.2.11&r2=1.91.2.12 Broken Link 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 Broken Link 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html Mailing List 
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:06.tcpdump.asc Third Party Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-14.xml Third Party Advisory 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.449313 Mailing List  Patch 
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1353 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/private/tcpdump-bgp.c Exploit 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:148 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_16_sr.html Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0368.html Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0387.html Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474225/100/0/threaded Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24965 Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018434 Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/ Broken Link 
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2007/TLSA-2007-46.txt Broken Link 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-492-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2578 Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9771 Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-3798
NVD Published Date:
07/16/2007
NVD Last Modified:
01/12/2024
Source:
MITRE