Vulnerability CVE-2018-14938


Published: 2018-08-04   Modified: 2018-08-05

Description:
An issue was discovered in wifipcap/wifipcap.cpp in TCPFLOW through 1.5.0-alpha. There is an integer overflow in the function handle_prism during caplen processing. If the caplen is less than 144, one can cause an integer overflow in the function handle_80211, which will result in an out-of-bounds read and may allow access to sensitive memory (or a denial of service).

Type:

CWE-190

(Integer Overflow or Wraparound)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
Partial
Affected software
Tcpflow project -> Tcpflow 
Digitalcorpora -> Tcpflow 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow/commit/a4e1cd14eb5ccc51ed271b65b3420f7d692c40eb
https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow/issues/182
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3955-1/

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