CVE-2007-1218 Information

Description

Off-by-one buffer overflow in the parse_elements function in the 802.11 printer code (print-802_11.c) for tcpdump 3.9.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted 802.11 frame. NOTE: this was originally referred to as heap-based but it might be stack-based.

Reference

http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/tcpdump/print-802_11.c http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/tcpdump/print-802_11.c?r1=1.31.2.11&r2=1.31.2.12 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2798 http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2799 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Mar/0003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/24318 http://secunia.com/advisories/24354 http://secunia.com/advisories/24423 http://secunia.com/advisories/24451 http://secunia.com/advisories/24583 http://secunia.com/advisories/24610 http://secunia.com/advisories/27580 http://secunia.com/advisories/28136 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1272 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:056 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:155 http://www.osvdb.org/32427 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0368.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0387.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22772 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017717 http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2007/TLSA-2007-46.txt http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-429-1 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0793 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168916 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32749 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1100 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9520