Vulnerability record · CVE-2018-14938 · published 5 August 2018
CVE-2018-14938: Digitalcorpora tcpflow out-of-bounds read vulnerability
DDigitalcorpora · Tcpflow
An issue was discovered in wifipcap/wifipcap.cpp in TCPFLOW through 1.5.0-alpha. There is an integer overflow in the function handle_prism during caplen processing. If the caplen is less than 144, one can cause an integer overflow in the function handle_80211, which will result in an out-of-bounds read and may allow access to sensitive memory (or a denial of service).
Description
An issue was discovered in wifipcap/wifipcap.cpp in TCPFLOW through 1.5.0-alpha. There is an integer overflow in the function handle_prism during caplen processing. If the caplen is less than 144, one can cause an integer overflow in the function handle_80211, which will result in an out-of-bounds read and may allow access to sensitive memory (or a denial of service).
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Affected products
2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.
References
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow/commit/a4e1cd14eb5ccc51ed271b65b3420f7d692c40eb | PatchThird Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow/issues/182 | ExploitThird Party Advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00046.html | |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3955-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow/commit/a4e1cd14eb5ccc51ed271b65b3420f7d692c40eb | PatchThird Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow/issues/182 | ExploitThird Party Advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00046.html | |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3955-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
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Related vulnerabilities
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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2018-14938), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-10-01). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.