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Amazon Linux AMI : tcpdump (ALAS-2022-1641)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 168604

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of tcpdump installed on the remote host is prior to 4.9.2-4.24. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2022-1641 advisory.

 The VRRP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-vrrp.c:vrrp_print() for VRRP version 3, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-14463. (CVE-2019-15167)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update tcpdump' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2022-1641.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-15167.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 168604

File Name: ala_ALAS-2022-1641.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/10/2022

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15167

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tcpdump, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tcpdump-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15167