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Package "libpcap"

Name: libpcap

Description:

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: 1.7.4-2ubuntu0.1
Release: xenial (16.04)
Level: security
Repository: main

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Other versions of "libpcap" in Xenial

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base main 1.7.4-2
updates main 1.7.4-2ubuntu0.1

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Changelog

Version: 1.7.4-2ubuntu0.1 2019-12-10 19:07:02 UTC

  libpcap (1.7.4-2ubuntu0.1) xenial-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 17:55:35 -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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