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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

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.


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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/

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184815 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/tcpdump/print-bgp.c?r1=1.91.2.11&r2=1.91.2.12 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26135 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26168 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26223 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26231 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26263 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26266 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26286 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26395 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26404 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26521 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27580 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28136 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:06.tcpdump.asc CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-14.xml CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.449313 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Patch 
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1353 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/private/tcpdump-bgp.c CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:148 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_16_sr.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0368.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0387.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474225/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24965 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018434 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/ CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2007/TLSA-2007-46.txt CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-492-1 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2578 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9771 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

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

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-3798
NVD Published Date:
07/16/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE