CVE-2019-15163

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15163
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-15163.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-15163
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-10-03T19:15:09Z
Modified
2025-10-15T10:19:08.153687Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

rpcapd/daemon.c in libpcap before 1.9.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) if a crypt() call fails.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
437b273761adedcbd880f714bfa44afeec186a31

Affected versions

libpcap-0.*

libpcap-0.6.1
libpcap-0.7.1
libpcap-0.8-bp

libpcap-1.*

libpcap-1.3-bp
libpcap-1.5.0
libpcap-1.6.0-bp
libpcap-1.7.0-bp
libpcap-1.8.0-bp
libpcap-1.8.1
libpcap-1.9-bp
libpcap-1.9.0
libpcap-1.9.0-rc1
libpcap-1.9.0rc2

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "deprecated": false,
        "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/437b273761adedcbd880f714bfa44afeec186a31",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "file": "rpcapd/daemon.c"
        },
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "307748217924625400423163628034066080518",
                "207627471226929980974177576761789405620",
                "324057952688139616317352615586617493494",
                "85884055634276576242239882593460915813",
                "53212736245745792959456481649127788649",
                "109100305614371195534484352722895782370",
                "232355268960275921028358747977642145909",
                "272092355253707617931565301784483312151"
            ]
        },
        "id": "CVE-2019-15163-0159ef4e"
    },
    {
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "deprecated": false,
        "source": "https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/437b273761adedcbd880f714bfa44afeec186a31",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "function": "daemon_AuthUserPwd",
            "file": "rpcapd/daemon.c"
        },
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "91313662920374083049208353129361244258",
            "length": 1387.0
        },
        "id": "CVE-2019-15163-ee6ad087"
    }
]