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    CVE-2019-15161

    rpcapd/daemon.c in libpcap before 1.9.1 mishandles certain length values because of reuse of a variable. This may open up an attack vector involving extra data at the end of a request.

    Published:Sep 20, 2019
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Oct 3, 2019
    EPSS Score:0.02527
    CVSS Score:5.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Tcpdump
    Product
    Libpcap

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-100 Overflow Buffers
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-18238 (CVSS 5) — The rpcap client code that processes a RPCAP_MSG_PACKET message received from the server incorrectly validates…
    CVE-2026-18313 (CVSS 4.3) — rpcapd can allocate up to 65536 bytes per each RPCAP_MSG_UPDATEFILTER_REQ or RPCAP_MSG_STARTCAP_REQ message re…
    CVE-2026-6554 (CVSS 5.5) — libpcap BPF interpreter treats the offset in the 'ja L' BPF instruction as a signed integer to implement loopi…
    CVE-2026-6244 (CVSS 5.5) — libpcap BPF interpreter for the 'div #k' and 'mod #k' ALU instructions does not check whether the immediate va…
    CVE-2026-31911 (CVSS 5.5) — libpcap BPF interpreter calls abort() if it encounters a BPF instruction that has an invalid opcode. In parti…
    CVE-2026-31912 (CVSS 5.5) — libpcap BPF interpreter detects neither reaching the end of the filter program buffer due to lack of a return …
    CVE-2026-0799 (CVSS 8.7) — In BPF instructions that load/store a value from/to a scratch memory register the register index is an unsigne…
    CVE-2025-11964 (CVSS 1.9) — On Windows only, if libpcap needs to convert a Windows error message to UTF-8 and the message includes charact…
    CVE-2025-11961 (CVSS 1.9) — pcap_ether_aton() is an auxiliary function in libpcap, it takes a string argument and returns a fixed-size all…
    CVE-2024-8006 (CVSS 4.4) — Remote packet capture support is disabled by default in libpcap. When a user builds libpcap with remote packe…

    References

    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
    https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/libpcap-1.9/CHANGES
    https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/617b12c0339db4891d117b661982126c495439ea
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5P5K3DQ4TFSZBDB3XN4CZNJNQ3UIF3D3/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GBIEKWLNIR62KZ5GA7EDXZS52HU6OE5F/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UZTIPUWABYUE5KQOLCKAW65AUUSB7QO6/
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210785
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210789
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210790
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
    https://www.tcpdump.org/public-cve-list.txt
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
    https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/libpcap-1.9/CHANGES
    https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/617b12c0339db4891d117b661982126c495439ea
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5P5K3DQ4TFSZBDB3XN4CZNJNQ3UIF3D3/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GBIEKWLNIR62KZ5GA7EDXZS52HU6OE5F/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UZTIPUWABYUE5KQOLCKAW65AUUSB7QO6/
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210785
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210789
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210790
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
    https://www.tcpdump.org/public-cve-list.txt

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High