Arch Linux: ASA-201504-21 Minor Risk Wireshark Memory Leak

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201504-20
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Severity: Low
Date    : 2015-04-20
CVE-ID  : CVE-2015-3138
Package : tcpdump
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
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The package tcpdump before version 4.7.3-2 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 4.7.3-2.

# pacman -Syu "tcpdump>=4.7.3-2"

The problem has been fixed upstream but no release is available yet.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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A vulnerability was discovered in print-wb.c that is leading to a
segmentation fault triggered through feeding into tcpdump a crafted
packet, either from a live network interface or from a .pcap file.

Impact
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A remote attacker is able to send specially crafted packets to cause a
segmentation fault leading to denial of service.

References
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3138
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/446