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Package "libpcap"

Name: libpcap

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This package is just an umbrella for a group of other packages, it has no description.
Description samples from packages in group:

  • development library for libpcap (transitional package)
  • system interface for user-level packet capture
  • debugging symbols for libpcap0.8
  • development library and header files for libpcap0.8
Latest version: 1.8.1-6ubuntu1.18.04.1
Release: bionic (18.04)
Level: security
Repository: main

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Version: 1.8.1-6ubuntu1.18.04.1 2019-12-10 19:07:05 UTC

  libpcap (1.8.1-6ubuntu1.18.04.1) bionic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: pcapng reading buffer over-read.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2019-15165-1.patch: do sanity checks on PHB
      header length before allocating memory.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2019-15165-2.patch: fix introduced format
      warning
    - CVE-2019-15165

 -- Steve Beattie <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:52:20 -0800
CVE-2019-15165 sf-pcapng.c in libpcap before 1.9.1 does not properly validate the PHB header length before allocating memory.


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