Microsoft advisory for CVE-2024-2397 — cbl2 tcpdump 4.99.1-1
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- cbl2 tcpdump 4.99.1-1
- cbl2 tcpdump 4.99.1-1 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-2397
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.2 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Due to a bug in packet data buffers management, the PPP printer in tcpdump can enter an infinite loop when reading a crafted DLT_PPP_SERIAL .pcap savefile. This problem does not affect any tcpdump release, but it affected the git master branch from 2023-06-05 to 2024-03-21.
Published by Tcpdump Group, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-2397, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).