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CVE-2018-14938

CRITICAL
9.1CVSS
Published: 2018-08-05
Updated: 2024-11-21
AI Analysis

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).

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
high
Integrity
none
Availability
high
Weaknesses
CWE-125CWE-190

Metadata

Primary Vendor
DIGITALCORPORA
Published
8/5/2018
Last Modified
11/21/2024
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

digitalcorpora : tcpflowdigitalcorpora : tcpflowcanonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linux

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