CVE-2019-15165
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15165
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-15165.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-15165
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2019-10-03T19:15:09Z
- Modified
- 2025-09-19T10:36:44.650108Z
- Severity
-
- 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
sf-pcapng.c in libpcap before 1.9.1 does not properly validate the PHB header length before allocating memory.
- References
-
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00051.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00052.html
- 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/87d6bef033062f969e70fa40c43dfd945d5a20ab
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/a5a36d9e82dde7265e38fe1f87b7f11c461c29f6
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00031.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00014.html
- 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://usn.ubuntu.com/4221-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4221-2/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.tcpdump.org/public-cve-list.txt
- 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://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-15165
Affected packages
Alpine:v3.10
libpcap
Alpine:v3.12
libpcap
Alpine:v3.13
libpcap
Alpine:v3.14
libpcap
Alpine:v3.15
libpcap
Alpine:v3.16
libpcap
Alpine:v3.17
libpcap
Alpine:v3.18
libpcap
Alpine:v3.19
libpcap
Alpine:v3.20
libpcap
Alpine:v3.21
libpcap
Alpine:v3.22
libpcap
Git
github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedFixed
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
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